Russian soldiers have been heard complaining about the “f------ Chinese” as the first North Korean troops arrive on the front line of Moscow’s war against Ukraine.

In an intercepted phone call released by Ukrainian intelligence, two Russian servicemen criticised chaotic plans to integrate North Korean soldiers into their command structures

One soldier uses a racist term to refer to the Koreans as “f------ Chinese”. In another snippet, reported by CNN, a soldier describes the reaction of a fellow Russian soldier after a meeting with the new Korean arrivals.

“He’s like standing there with his eyes out, like… f---… He came here and says ‘what the f--- to do with them’.”

At another point in the intercept, the soldiers question whether they have the resources to deal with the Korean soldiers.

“The only thing I don’t understand is that there [should be] three senior officers for 30 people. Where do we get them? We’ll have to pull them out,” one Russian serviceman says.