Ukraine president urged world leaders to pile ‘tangible pressure’ on Pyongyang as South Korea urges Russia to stop its ‘illegal cooperation’ with North Korea. What we know on day 976Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Russia was planning to send North Korean troops into battle against his country as early as Sunday, and urged world leaders to pile “tangible pressure” on Pyongyang.South Korea urged Russia to stop its “illegal cooperation” with North Korea and voiced “grave concern” on Friday as Moscow moved to ratify its defence treaty with Pyongyang. Seoul has been watching the deployment of North Korea troops to Russia with growing unease.Zelenskyy’s chief of staff said on Friday that a full withdrawal of Russian troops, and not just peace talks, were essential to ending the more than two-and-a-half-year-old war. Andriy Yermak addressed an international meeting devoted to implementing a peace plan, saying “Don’t expect this war to end when the warring sides begin to talk to each other … Don’t be deceived. This war will end when the last soldier of the occupying army returns home.”G7 leaders have finalised details surrounding a $50bn loan to aid Kyiv, backed by profits from Russian sovereign assets frozen after its invasion of Ukraine, according to a statement released Friday. Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies said they “have reached a consensus on how to deliver” the loans of approximately $50bn, with an aim to start disbursing funds by the end of this year.A Russian missile attack hit residences and a medical facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday ev