More than 3,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded while fighting Ukraine's invasion of the Russian Kursk region.
This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, AFP reports.
Pyongyang has sent thousands of soldiers to reinforce the Russian army, including in the border region of Kursk, where Ukraine carried out a shock incursion along the border in August.
Zelensky wrote in X that "according to preliminary data, the number of North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in the Kursk region has already exceeded 3,000."
Earlier, South Korea announced that about 1,100 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded since they entered combat in December.
The Ukrainian president said he had received a report from army chief Oleksandr Sirsky on the situation in the Kursk region. He also warned of "the risks of North Korea sending additional troops and military equipment to the Russian army."
Zelensky pointed out that the world needs to understand that the "growing cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang" is leading to a proportional increase in "the risk of destabilization around the Korean Peninsula and in neighboring regions or waters." | BGNES
