KYIV: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday (Feb 7) that North Korean troops were back on the front line in Russia’s Kursk region, after reports Moscow had withdrawn them due to heavy losses.
More than 10,000 soldiers from the reclusive state were sent to Russia last year to help it fight back a shock Ukrainian offensive into the border region, according to South Korean and Western intelligence.
A Ukrainian military spokesman told AFP last Friday that Kyiv had not encountered activity or clashes with North Korean troops for three weeks.
“There have been new assaults in the Kursk operation areas … the Russian army and North Korean soldiers have been brought in again,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address.
The Ukrainian leader said a “significant number” of opposing troops had been “destroyed”.
“We are talking about hundreds of Russian and North Korean soldiers,” he added.
Source: CNA
