North Korean state television has published its first footage of the country’s troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine’s Kursk region. The videos show DPRK soldiers operating mortars, multiple-launch rocket systems, drones and other battlefield equipment against Ukrainian positions, corroborating long-running reports of Pyongyang’s involvement in the conflict. The broadcast came a day after Kim Jong Un presided over a ceremony in Pyongyang that publicly acknowledged combat losses for the first time. Photographs released by official media depict the leader kneeling before 101 portraits of fallen soldiers and awarding medals to survivors who, he said, had endured the “hail of bullets and bombs” on foreign soil. State outlets did not specify the size of the deployment, but separate broadcasts and social-media channels linked to the government repeated earlier claims that more than 10,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia since last year. Moscow and Kyiv have not commented on the new footage, while the U.S. Department of Defense has previously warned Pyongyang of consequences for direct military support to Russia. The disclosure comes amid an escalation in hostilities. Ukraine on Thursday said Russian forces dropped 41 air-delivered bombs on Kramatorsk and used first-person-view drones to strike civilian vehicles in the Dnipropetrovsk region. Russia’s defense ministry, in turn, claimed coordinated drone and missile strikes that it said killed more than 600 Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed dozens of armored vehicles.