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That is the specific number Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says Moscow is preparing to receive in Russia's Voronezh region. The Kremlin declined to comment on his assertion.
Zelenskiy's claim The Ukrainian president named a troop count, a country of origin, and a specific Russian region. Zelenskiy stated that Moscow is actively preparing to absorb the North Korean contingent.
The precision of the figure leaves little interpretive room: 30,000 is not a range, not an estimate attributed to unnamed officials, and not a vague reference to allied military cooperation.
It is a number named aloud by a sitting head of state and directed at an adversary by name. The Kremlin's non-answer Declining to comment is not the same as denying.
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