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North Korea Opens Museum Honoring 2,300 Ukraine War Dead

5/8/2026

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North Korea completed the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang, honoring about 2,300 soldiers killed for Russia in Ukraine.
The museum’s walls list roughly 2,300 names, matching the BBC’s estimate of North Korean fatalities.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says 11,000 North Korean troops were deployed and about 6,000 were killed or wounded.
The site has 140 graves each side and a three-storey columbarium for at least 1,000 urns.

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North Korea completed the Memorial Museum of Combat Feats in Pyongyang, honoring about 2,300 soldiers killed for Russia in Ukraine.
The museum’s walls list roughly 2,300 names, matching the BBC’s estimate of North Korean fatalities.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service says 11,000 North Korean troops were deployed and about 6,000 were killed or wounded.
The site has 140 graves each side and a three-storey columbarium for at least 1,000 urns.