1,000 North Korean troops reportedly killed fighting for Putin in Kursk region of Russia

Ukraine’s President previously shared pictures of two men adding that two North Korean soldiers had been captured - (@ZelenskyyUa/X)

A thousand North Korean troops who have been fighting in the Kursk region of Russia have been killed in Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine, officials have said.

Western officials have told the BBC that 36 per cent of North Korean forces fighting in Russia had been killed, injured or captured by mid-January.