North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom relations have grown closer since Moscow was cut off from the West, congratulated the Kremlin leader on Victory Day, Reuters and The Guardian reported.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un wrote to Volodymyr that Russia “will win the holy war against the arbitrariness of the imperialists” – Ukraine and its Western supporters, the state news agency KCNA reported on Tuesday.

“We send you, the Russian military and the people of Russia, warm wishes for a holy struggle to preserve world peace,” the North Korean leader said in a letter to Putin, who called on Russia to continue to defend its “autonomy” and “regional stability.”

Kim also told Putin that Russia would “suppress all provocations and threats from hostile forces,” North Korea’s main news agency reported.