North Korea appears to have sent at least 3,000 more soldiers to Russia early this year, South Korea’s military said Thursday, demonstrating Pyongyang’s continued support for Moscow’s war on Ukraine as world leaders push for an end to the three-year conflict.

North Korea sent an additional 3,000 troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine this year, South Korea said Thursday, as Pyongyang’s support appears to continue even as Moscow moves toward negotiations to end the conflict.

Moscow is pushing for tough concessions as it drives ahead on the battlefield in Ukraine—and talks are only going to get more difficult from here.

When it comes to Russia’s Indigenous peoples, the effect of Russia’s war in Ukraine goes beyond the tragedy experienced by individual families. Its devastating toll on its Indigenous communities and small-numbered peoples is one of the many unforeseen consequences of this war that Russia will be grappling with for years and decades to come.