Pyongyang’s soldiers have for the first time fought alongside the Russian military in Kursk
North Korean troops have fought for the first time alongside Russian forces against Ukrainian soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region and taken heavy casualties, the Pentagon said on Monday. Ukrainian troops launched an incursion into Kursk in the summer, and Kyiv said in October that 11,000 North Korea soldiers were being deployed there to help Russian forces try to retake the region.
One video made by a Ukrainian drone showed the bodies of 23 soldiers, all supposedly North Koreans. The Centre for Defence Strategies, a Kyiv-based security think-tank, said in a briefing on Monday evening that the North Korean troops “were forced to overcome Ukrainian minefields up to 2km deep to assault the ruins of Plekhovo”. The GUR said North Korean assault groups were “being replenished with fresh personnel” after the losses “to continue active combat operations” in Kursk.
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