AFP and Yonhap report that a senior official from the North Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations, during a session of the First Committee of the 78th UN General Assembly in New York, refuted the South Korean government's recent claim of North Korea dispatching troops to aid Russia, calling it a baseless rumor.

Previously, South Korean intelligence agencies reported that North Korea had decided to send a special operations force of brigade-level size, consisting of 12,000 soldiers, to fight alongside Russia, with the first batch of 300 soldiers already arriving in Russia.