The Russian military has misplaced over 38,000 troops and greater than 1,000 items of apparatus for the reason that starting of Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk Oblast, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi stated on Jan. 1.
Syrskyi's assertion comes after his go to to Russia's Kursk Oblast to reward the Ukrainian army serving within the space.
Over 700 servicemen from the Russian army had been captured throughout the Ukrainian incursion, the final added.
"We are going to proceed to destroy the invaders. It doesn't matter whether or not they have Russian or North Korean passports. The battle continues," Syrskyi stated.
Ukraine started its shock incursion into Kursk Oblast on Aug. 6, capturing about 1,300 sq. kilometers of territory, in line with Kyiv. Ukrainian forces have misplaced management of about half of the initially captured territory as intense preventing continues within the area. Kyiv hopes to make use of the occupied Russian territory as a bargaining chip in future negotiations with Russia.
Russia has additionally stationed roughly 12,000 North Korean troopers within the area since August to help in ousting Ukrainian forces.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on Dec. 23 that greater than 3,000 North Korean troopers have been killed or injured since their deployment in Kursk Oblast.
Their casualties have been linked to their lack of awareness of the terrain and trendy drone warfare, in line with South Korean MP Lee Sung-kwon.
The Kyiv IndependentKateryna Hodunova
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