“Hundreds” of North Korean soldiers have been killed or injured in the fighting between them and the Ukrainian army in the Russian region of Kursk, a senior American military official said on Tuesday.
“Several hundred victims, this is our latest estimate of North Korea’s losses,” said the official on condition of anonymity, specifying that this count included “lightly wounded to those killed in combat”.
Earlier on Tuesday, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Oleksandr Syrsky, said that, “for three days the enemy has been carrying out intense offensive operations in the Kursk region, actively using units of the northern army -Korean”, adding that it had already “suffered heavy losses”.