The audio was intercepted from encrypted Russian transmission channels on the night of October 23, according to Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.
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Russian soldiers have been heard raising concerns about how North Korean soldiers will be commanded and provided with ammunition and military kit
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The Russian soldiers talk disdainfully about the incoming North Korean soldiers, codenamed the “K Battalion,” at one point referring to them as “the fucking Chinese.”
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In the same extract, a serviceman describes another who has been tasked to “meet people.” And he’s like standing there with his eyes out, like… fuck,” the soldier says. “He came here and says what the fuckk to do with them.”
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The intercepts also reveal plans to have one interpreter and three senior officers for every 30 North Korean men, which the Russian soldiers are heard in the audio condemning.
“The only thing I don’t understand is that there [should be] three senior officers for 30 people. Where do we get them? We’ll have to pull them out,” one Russian serviceman says.
“I’m fucking telling you, there are 77 battalion commanders coming in tomorrow, there are commanders, deputy commanders and so on,” a serviceman says in another extract.
Soldaten kommen gut an. Kriegen dann wohl die letzte Ausrüstung der Russen