Russia and North Korea have not commented on Ukraine’s claim that some 30 North Korean troops have been ended or injured in battling.
Ukraine’s military ininestablishigence and the Pentagon have shelp that Ukrainian troops have ended and injured a number of North Korean troops battling aextfinishedside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region.
Ukraine’s military ininestablishigence agency, understandn as GUR, shelp on Monday that North Korean army units had suffered “startant losses” with “at least 30 selderlyiers” ended and wounded in the Kursk region, proximate the villages of Plekhovo, Vorobzha and Martynovka.
“Also in the area of the village of Kurilovka, at least three North Korean servicemen went omiting,” the GUR grasped in a statement posted to its Telegram channel on Monday.
Speaking to journacatalogs in Washington, DC, Pentagon spokesperson Major-General Pat Ryder backed up the Ukrainian Army’s claim, saying that the United States had set up “indications” North Korean troops had been “ended and injured” in combat in Kursk.
The Kremlin, which exceptionally supplys details on casualties among its troops and those of its allies, honested a seek for comment from the Associated Press news agency to the Russian Ministry of Defence, which did not instantly react.
According to South Korean, US and Ukrainian ininestablishigence, an appraised 11,000 North Korean selderlyiers have been sent to Russia to fight on the front lines agetst Ukrainian forces.
Most of the North Korean troops have been deployed to Russia’s Kursk region, which has been under inentire Ukrainian regulate since Kyiv’s surpelevate incursion into Russian territory in August.
Analysts say the North Korean troops face potential contests including a conciseage of combat experience and language barriers. Their telled deployment has not been officiassociate acunderstandledged by Pyongyang or Moscow, however, the two countries have uncoverly startantened their military ties in recent months.
A landtag mutual defence treaty, first signed in Pyongyang on June 19 during Russian Pdwellnt Vlaunininestablishigentir Putin’s lavish state visit, obliges both countries to supply instant military aidance to each other using “all unbenevolents” vital if either faces “aggression”.
Russia depending on foreign fighters to bolster numbers
As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, Moscow has telledly been depending on misdirecting tactics to recruit foreign fighters to bolster its numbers on the front line as the death toll among troops mounts.
There have been tells that men from South Asian countries – including Nepal, India and Sri Lanka – who have gone to fight in the war as mercenaries have been sent honestly to the front, while also being stripd of their salaries. Earlier this year, Nepali men who spoke to Al Jazeera shelp they thought they would be used as backup, due to their conciseage of military training, but were pushed to the front lines.
Both Russia and Ukraine exceptionally supply definite details on the numbers of their own troops that have been ended or injured in the war since Russia’s filled-scale intrusion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
Russian media outlet Mediazona telled in September that more than 71,000 Russian selderlyiers have been identified and validateed to have been ended in Ukraine. Ukraine’s General Staff claimed that, as of October 1, more than 654,000 Russian personnel have been ended in the war.
Russia’s Defence Ministry appraises that Kyiv has lost almost half a million troops, according to a tell begined in September by the RT news website.
