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North Korean troops resume fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, Zelensky says
The North Korean military has resumed combat operations in Russia’s Kursk oblast after previously pausing their active involvement in assaults against Ukrainian forces.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced this.
“Also today, there was a report of the Chief of the Army on the situation in the Donetsk and Kursk regions. There were new assaults in the areas of the Kursk operation – the Russian army and North Korean soldiers were brought up again. A significant number of invaders have been destroyed, we are talking about hundreds of Russian and North Korean soldiers,” Volodymyr Zelensky stated.
In January 2025, it was reported that North Korean soldiers were withdrawn from the front line in the Kursk oblast of the Russian Federation. This was due to the heavy losses they suffered in battles with Ukrainian troops.
This was reported by The New York Times, citing officials from Ukraine and the United States. According to the NYT sources, the North Korean military had not been seen at the front line for about two weeks.
According to the newspaper, since arriving on the battlefield in the Kursk oblast to help the Russians oust Ukrainian troops, the North Korean soldiers have been left to their own devices.
The spokesman for the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, confirmed in a comment to Ukrayinska Pravda that the presence of DPRK military has not been noted in the Kursk oblast of the Russian Federation for about three weeks.
At the same time, the military officer clarified that this refers only to those areas of the front where the SSO soldiers are fighting.
According to the Ukrainian military participating in the combat operation in the Kursk oblast, the North Korean infantry is conducting offensive actions in small groups. But when they come into contact with Ukrainian forces, they completely neglect their wounded and dead.
“They know that wars are not won by nobility and kindness, unlike the unrealistic military culture that the West now possesses and is trying to impose on Ukraine,” Demchenko writes.
NK NEWS