If North Korea were to send troops to Ukraine to fight on Russia's behalf it would significantly escalate the conflict, NATO Chief Mark Rutte said on social media platform X on Monday.

The US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, arrives in Kyiv in an unannounced visit hours after a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian capital. On the 972nd day of the war in Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador in Seoul to protest the alleged deployment of North Korean troops to Russia for their deployment in Ukraine,

South Korea considers supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine, including 155mm artillery shells, amid North Korea's troop deployments to Russia.