A monument to the troops who assisted Russia in repelling the Ukrainian incursion will be erected, the minister has said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has thanked the North Korean troops who helped liberate Russia’s Kursk Region earlier this year from a cross-border incursion by Ukraine. Kiev's forces captured some of the border areas in Kursk Region last August before being gradually pushed back. Russia fully liberated the territory this past April. The Defense Ministry in Moscow