Biden administration pledges additional military aid to Ukraine amid Russia war
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Security assistance package in works as North Korean troops are deployed in Kursk after Putin-Kim agreement. The Biden administration is pledging to approve fresh military aid to Ukraine in the coming days, including crucial air defense systems, as North Korean forces face mounting casualties in their first major deployment to a European conflict.
John Kirby, the US national security communications adviser, told reporters on Friday that in just the last week North Korean troops have suffered more than 1,000 casualties in what he referred to as failed “human wave” assaults near the Kursk border-region, which confirms similar figures reported by South Korea.
According to Kirby, there are also reports of North Korean soldiers taking their own lives rather than surrendering. “These human wave tactics that we’re seeing haven’t really been all that effective,” Kirby said. “Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses.”.
The promised US security assistance package is expected to be announced “in the next couple of days”, Kirby said, though it’s unclear when that will be and how much it will include. The aid surge comes weeks after the national security adviser Jake Sullivan met.
