Ukraine says North Korean soldiers killed fighting alongside Russian troops

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, shake hands during a meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, Russia, in September 2023 [Vladimir Smirnov/Sputnik Kremlin pool photo via AP]

Ukraine’s military intelligence and the Pentagon have said that Ukrainian troops have killed and injured a number of North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces in Russia’s Kursk border region.

Ukraine’s military intelligence agency, known as GUR, said on Monday that North Korean army units had suffered “significant losses” with “at least 30 soldiers” killed and wounded in the Kursk region, near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorobzha and Martynovka.