The CRINKs at war

Thousands of North Koreans put on Russian uniforms and picked up AK-47s last year to help Putin recover Kursk province from a Ukrainian offensive. Now Chinese young men are joining them. That leaves only one CRINK country missing from the front line of Putin's war against the West, though Iran has supplied thousands of Shaheed drones to kill Ukrainian civilians. The Kyiv Independent has a fascinating video of two Chinese young men captured the other day, with one of them explaining that he'd never picked up a weapon before going into combat.

Ukraine says that scores of young Chinese are wearing Russian uniformas this month, lured by high enlistment bonuses.