On Wednesday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko warned that South Korea’s recent actions toward North Korea could be perceived as provocations. On this day, the Russian state-run TASS news agency reported that Deputy Minister Rudenko said in Islamabad,

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell says that Washington and its allies are “alarmed” by North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats as well as its increasing military support for Russia’s war in Ukraine,

Russia's ties with North Korea have grown since the start of the Ukraine war on February 24, 2022, particularly as Moscow faces increasing international isolation. In March, Russia vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution, effectively ending international monitoring of sanctions against North Korea.