The Russian military has misplaced nearly 250,000 troopers within the warfare towards Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned on Feb. 15 throughout his speech on the Munich Safety Convention.
Zelensky claimed that Moscow misplaced almost 20,000 troopers within the battles for Russia's Kursk Oblast alone.
As well as, a complete of over 610,000 Russian troops have been wounded since Feb. 24, 2022, in response to the president.
Zelensky's estimate of Russian losses matches that of the Common Employees of Ukraine's Armed Forces. In line with the navy, Russia has misplaced 856,660 troops in Ukraine since 2022.
"We fully destroyed the North Korean items that (Vladimir) Putin had to herald as a result of his personal forces weren’t sufficient to carry again our counteroffensive," Zelensky mentioned, talking of Ukraine's Kursk operation.
"For over six months now, Ukrainians have been holding a foothold inside Russian territory, regardless that it was Russia that needed to create a 'buffer zone' inside our land," he added.
As much as 12,000 North Korean troops had been deployed to Kursk Oblast final fall to help Russian forces in countering a Ukrainian incursion launched in early August 2024.
Zelensky beforehand mentioned that North Korean troops preventing for Russia towards Ukraine have suffered 4,000 casualties, two-thirds of whom have been killed.
The heavy losses of the North Korean military could also be associated to its lack of fight expertise and the tactic of human waves assaults with a restricted quantity of kit, Ukraine's navy intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov mentioned in an interview with The Struggle Zone journal printed on Feb. 4.
Kyiv launched a shock cross-border incursion into Kursk in August 2024, initially capturing about 1,300 sq. kilometers (500 sq. miles) of Russian territory. Whereas Ukrainian forces have misplaced roughly half that space since, they lately superior 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) within the area in a brand new offensive.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Hodunova