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Kursk reports and a Kazan meeting, 25 October 2024
Summary
A look back at a day when reports of North Korean troops in Russia followed a notable India–China encounter days earlier.
What did the war in Ukraine look like by 25 October 2024? On that date, Ukraine reported that the first North Korean units had entered active "warzones" in Russia's Kursk Oblast. The soldiers were reportedly under the command of Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov.
The report placed foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine at the centre of attention, with the Kursk offensive as its setting.
A meeting in Kazan
Two days earlier, on 23 October 2024, the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, held a bilateral meeting with the President of China, Xi Jinping. It took place on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.
The meeting was the first bilateral encounter between India and China in five years. It came in the aftermath of the 2020 border skirmishes between Indian and Chinese troops.
Taken together, the two items show how events in Russia and on its territory drew attention from several directions in the final week of October 2024.
