2 hours Ago By Arpan Rai and Tom Watling
North Korea has suffered “several hundred” casualties while fighting alongside Russian forces against Ukraine in the Kursk border region, a senior US military official said, a much higher toll than one given by Kyiv earlier this week. “Several hundred casualties is our latest estimate that the DPRK has suffered,” the official said on condition of anonymity. This “would include everything from.
.. light wounds up to being KIA (killed in action)”, the official said, with soldiers of “all ranks” among the casualties.
The North Korean forces don’t appear to be battle-hardened, the official said, suggesting this would in part explain the high rate of casualties. Between 10,000 and 12,000 North Korean troops have been deployed by Russia as “cannon fodder”, president Volodymyr Zelensky has said. This comes after Ukraine claimed responsibility for the killing of senior Russian lieutenant general Igor Kirillov, who was in charge of Russia’s nuclear protection forces, in a Moscow bombing.
Russia has threatened the Ukrainian leadership with imminent revenge for what it described as a “cowardly and despicable strike”..
