White House spokesperson John Kirby reports that thousands of North Korean troops have been killed or wounded in Russia's war against Ukraine, with a thousand casualties in the Kursk region alone last week. Kirby states that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and sending them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses.
North Korea n forces are experiencing mass casualties on the front lines of Russia ’s war against Ukraine , with a thousand of their troops killed or wounded in the last week alone in Russia ’s Kursk region, White House spokesperson John Kirby said.“It is clear that Russia n and North Korea n military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defences,” Kirby said, describing the troops’ offensive as “massed, dismounted assaults”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in his nightly video address, said North Korean forces had sustained “very significant” losses and were being sent into battle with only minimal protection from the Russian forces. “Everything is set up so that it is impossible for us to capture them. There are instances in which they are executed by their own forces. Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection.”
On Monday, Zelensky said more than 3000 North Korean soldiers had been killed and wounded in Kursk region. He said he was citing preliminary data.
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