UK Defence Intelligence has analysed that as of January 2025, North Korea has already lost about 4,000 military personnel in the Russian-Ukrainian war who took part in the fighting in Russiaʼs Kursk Oblast.

The entire North Korean military contingent currently in the Kursk Oblast may be killed or wounded in combat by mid-April of this year if the dynamics of their

This represents nearly half of the skirmishes over the past day, as the military reported 218 clashes across the front.

Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have indicated that the new deployment of North Korean troops will sustain the current pace of infantry assaults in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. However,

North Korean soldiers, who are fighting alongside the russians against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk Oblast, executed Ukrainians who tried to

Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed 21 North Korean soldiers who attacked Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region of Russia. "It lasted for more than eight hours," reported the SOF. Ukrainian Special Operations Forces (SOF) killed 21 and wounded 40 North Korean soldiers who attacked Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region in western

Ukrainian forces have captured two wounded North Korean soldiers in Kursk Oblast, who are now in Kyiv and communicating with Ukraine’s SBU Security Service investigators, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reported on X on Jan.

The military did not specify the exact date of the battle but noted that Ukrainian infantry and snipers, equipped with small arms and grenade launchers, held off the North Korean army's advance on Ukrainian positions for over eight hours.