As of today, approximately 300 soldiers from the North Korean military contingent have been killed in the Kursk region. This is 200 more than were reported in December, reports the Yonhap news agency.
North Korean troops fighting for Russian President Vladimir Putin are taking heavy casualties. In just a few weeks of fighting, the North Korean contingent in Russia has lost almost 40 percent of its combat fighting capability.
As Yonhap news agency reports with reference to the briefing of the South Korean intelligence, the total losses of the DPRK military in Kursk region are about 3,000 people: 300 killed and 2,700 wounded.
According to Western officials, as of the middle of January, North Korean forces in Kursk region lost about 4,000 people killed and wounded, including about 1,000 killed, the BBC said on Wednesday.
With the prospect of peace negotiations more likely in 2025, Ukrainian and Russian forces are racing to capture as much territory as possible in different parts of the battlefield, one such region of interest on the Ukrainian side is the Kursk oblast,
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service reported that more than 300 North Korean soldiers were killed fighting against Ukraine, while more than 2,700 were injured.
A South Korean lawmaker said Seoul's intelligence showed some 3,000 North Korean troops have been wounded or killed in Kursk.
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