A senior US Defense Department official said on Tuesday that “hundreds” of North Korean soldiers have been killed or injured during clashes with Ukrainian armed forces in Russia’s Kursk region. “Hundreds of casualties, that’s our latest estimate of North Korean casualties,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, clarifying that the count included “from minor injuries to those killed in combat.” Earlier yesterday, the head of the Ukrainian army Oleksandr Shirsky stated that “for three days now, the enemy has been conducting intensive offensive operations in the Kursk region, actively using units of the North Korean army”, adding that the latter have already “suffered heavy losses”. Faced with an invasion by the Russian military for the next three years, Ukraine launched a surprise attack in early August on Russia’s Kursk region — the largest on Russian territory since World War II — and still holds a small part of it. Several thousand North Korean military personnel were deployed to Russia on […]
Source: News Beast
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