CRINKs: Russia's expanding web of military partners | DW News

NATO Chief Mark Rutte says the presence of North Korean troops on the battlefield in Ukraine would mark a "significant escalation" of Russia's invasion. Rutte was responding to unverified warnings of troop movements by South Korea. It comes months after Moscow and Pyongyang signed a military deal. Our next report looks at the Kremlin's expanding web of military partners - an alliance sometimes referred to by the acronym CRINKs.

00:00 What is CRINKs?
02:29 DW's Fabian Kretschmer reports from Seoul
07:31 DW speaks with Velina Tchakarova, expert in geopolitics with a special focus on Russia and China

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[charliemike]

Ukraine has more tham 50 nations on it's side. Russia has only 3 allies. What's problem with that?

[DavidGonzalez-pcki]

Didn’t South Korea give up 500, 000 shells for Ukraine?

[orionmedivh]

DW making up a new word sounding like a racial slur, and thinks nobody will notice

[esense]

Who would have thought that making a lot of enemies make them work together

[koiguidenishikigoi]

France Uk Canada Korea AUstralia Sweden Switzerland makes a nice name too. See anyone can do it.

[michaelgavinjohnston]

CRINKs - China - Russia - Iran - North Korea...you forgot Belarus, Cuba, Serbia, Syria, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela!

[julioduan]

Why does South Korea want to decide what North Korea does with its military in Ukraine? Isn’t North Korea a sovereign country?

[AnKum]

Western media is really shitting their pants on this unconfirmed news. 😂

[R.G.]

Why is South Korea barking so loud about North Korea soldiers being sent to Russia? We all know that there are over 24, 000 American soldiers station permanently in South Korea. Why does this reporter expect China to comment on speculations based on empirical evidence? It’s a matter between Russia and North Korea. What’s wrong with neither condemn nor condone?

[zsarimaxim]

That’s one strange protest, as N.Korea is a sovereign state who can enter any alliance or join any war as it desires.

[Luiz-ws]

Crinks...😂 how childish. Who came up with this bs name? Probably some CIA agent.

[nembohdiland]

Russia have never protest against South Korea sending arms to Ukraine to fight Russia

[ThànhHoàngNgọc-wr]

last time i checked US never fight war alone in any war : afganistan, iraq, lybia, syria, vietnam they alway call in a bunch of other allied (even non-allied) nation Boots on ground . so what is the problem with NK boots on ground fight along side russia in ukraine here ? or even Belarus or china in near future all those countries are allied, what is the problem if they choose to fight war together ?

[CR-uxhn]

For me, its a fair for Russia to reach out to its friends. If Nato and US are entitled to help Ukraine, I don't see any reason why China, Iran and N. Korea can't help their friend Russia.

[EdvinMuhic]

What about the western soldiers in Ukraine ?
What about Nato Ammunition and weapons in Pleatine ?

[fideliasncube]

It's NATO vs Russia and allies, so it's a free and fair game

[TienyeeTien]

Where is the west and India? The west buy Russian energy everyday from India and export weaponry components to Russia through India, Turkey, Georgia and even Maldives….

[ozeeo]

who would have thought expanding nato would push Russia, China and Iran together! i mean its not like Putin didnt warn about it, and pretty much every american ambassador, CIA director etc... just imagine how Europe and Germany would be performing if they had not pushed the limit, they would have been able to turn Russia and Iran easily to be on their side and German industry would still have a chance!

[itzme]

China did a agreement with india on border dispute, now

[jamesmiller]

They're using Ai to identify North Korean soldiers on the battlefield and yet the lack weapons, if the pay is attractive enough then mercenaries will flood into the war zone, it's not too hard to understand why Ukraine have thousands of fighters from all over the world.