On Wednesday, Russia's TASS news agency quoted Shoigu as saying North Korea would send a "division of builders, two military brigades [of] 5,000 people", as well as 1,000 deminers to help with the "restoration" of the Kursk region.

Russia’s Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said that North Korea would send a “division of builders, two military brigades of 5,000 people” and 1,000 deminers who would help Russia in the “rest

North Korea will send military builders and sappers to help restore Russia's Kursk region after Ukraine's incursion, Moscow's security chief said, in a fresh sign of deepening ties between the two countries.