The news was shared by Financial Times chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman, who wrote on Twitter: "A usually reliable source tells me that the North Korean soldiers who have deployed to Russia have never had unfettered access to the internet before. As a result, they are gorging on pornography."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that Ukraine's military is holding back an “enemy force” of nearly 50,000 Russian troops in the Kursk region. Zelensky disclosed the figure following a briefing with General Oleksandr Syrskyi,