Following reports that they were pulled out last month due to significant fatalities, the president of Ukraine claims that North Korean personnel have returned to the front line in the western Kursk region of Russia.
Volodymyr Zelensky claimed in a Friday video address that the Russian army had “brought back in North Korean soldiers” who were conducting “new assaults” in the area that Ukraine partially controls.
“Hundreds of North Korean and Russian military men have been “destroyed,” he claimed.
Western officials told the news in January that they thought at least 1,000 of the 11,000 troops that North Korea had sent had been killed in the previous three months. Russia and North Korea have not responded.
In February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
