Ukraine-Russia latest: Putin bombs Kharkiv supermarket as UN ‘very concerned’ by North Korean troops
At least five people have been injured after Russian forces bombed a supermarket in Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv’s governor said.
Oleh Syniehubov said a Russian guided bomb hit the supermarket in Kharkiv’s central Shevchenkivskyi district on Sunday.
Kharkiv was struck as Western nations and the UN raised alarms over thousands of North Korean troops making their way toward the Ukrainian border to join Russia’s war.
UN’s secretary-general António Guterres was “very concerned” about reports of North Korean troops being sent to Russia, a UN spokesperson said.
Pyongyang has vowed to back Russia until it achieves victory over Ukraine. “Our traditional, historically friendly relations, which have traveled the tested path of history, today … are rising to a new level of relations of invincible military comradeship,” the North’s foreign minister Choe Son Hui said during her trip to Moscow last week.
It came as US secretary of state Antony Blinken warned North Korean troops fighting inside the Russian president’s “meat grinder” war would be a legitimate military target.
The top US diplomat confirmed there are 10,000 already in Russia, including as many as 8,000 in the Kursk region.
