All 12,000 troops sent by North Korea to bolster Vladimir Putin's dwindling forces may be killed or wounded in the next three months
North Korean troops fighting for Russia believed they were carrying out a simple training exercise, it has been revealed, as thousands of Kim Jong Un's troops have already been wounded or killed in the conflict.
Two wounded North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region made the revelation to translators.
They also revealed that their families did not know of their whereabouts.
The translator asked one of the injured men if he wants to return to North Korea, to which he responded: 'Are all Ukrainian people good?'.
'I want to live here', he added.
At least 3000 North Korean soldiers have been killed in Russia, according to South Korea's intelligence agency.
It comes after analysts claimed earlier this week that all 12,000 troops sent by North Korea to bolster Vladimir Putin's dwindling forces may be killed or wounded within the next three months.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which has been tracking developments on the front-lines of the invasion of Ukraine since it started in February 2022, said in an assessment on January 16 that 'the entirety of this North Korean contingent in Kursk Oblast may be killed or wounded in roughly 12 weeks.'
North Korean troops fighting for Russia believed they were carrying out a simple training exercise, it has been revealed
They also revealed that their families did not know of their whereabouts
In early January, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said 3,800 North Korean soldiers have so far been killed or wounded in Kursk.
They were first reported to be on the battlefield in early November, with significant fighting taking place from December.
The ISW estimates that the North Korean contingent is suffering losses of around 92 personnel a day, and will be completely gone by mid-April if they 'continue to suffer similarly high casualty rates in the future.'
Fighting has intensified in the Russian region of Kursk, with Ukrainian forces taking out whole columns of tanks and the battlefield littered with the corpses of Russian and North Korean soldiers, chilling pictures purportedly show.
Desperate to reclaim the region, part of which was first seized by Kyiv's forces back in August and has been defended by Ukraine since, Vladimir Putin has sent wave after wave of troops to die as 'cannon fodder', according to Ukrainian OSINT group InformNapalm.
The North Koreans were sent in 'ahead of Russian units' to storm frontline positions' in Russia 's Kursk region, contested amid a blistering Ukrainian offensive, it added.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday the country's military had captured two North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia
A North Korean soldier held after being captured by the Ukrainian army
North Korean citizens being given Russian uniforms under the direction of the Russian military
Russian troops have no idea what to do with them and refer to them as the f***ing Chinese.
