President Volodymyr Zelensky stated on Jan. 6 that Russian forces had sustained vital losses over 5 months of preventing in Russia's Kursk area.

"In the course of the Kursk operation, the enemy has already misplaced 38,000 of their troopers on this route alone, with practically 15,000 of those losses being irreversible," Zelensky added in his night tackle.

He didn’t present proof to help the figures he cited for Russian casualties, so the Kyiv Impartial couldn’t instantly confirm the knowledge.

The Kursk area lies on the border with Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, which has been experiencing every day assaults since Russian troops had been pushed out of the oblast and again throughout the border in April 2022.

Ukrainian forces launched a large-scale operation within the Kursk area in early August, capturing sections of the territory. Nevertheless, the Russian army claims it has regained management over a lot of that land. On Jan. 5, Ukraine reported initiating a brand new offensive within the space however shared restricted details about it.

Stories from Ukrainian and Western sources recommend that round 11,000 North Korean troops are aiding Russian forces within the area. Russia has not confirmed or denied their involvement.

The Russian Protection Ministry reported on Monday that Ukrainian forces had been stopped, and their major items had been destroyed close to Berdin, a settlement alongside a highway main northeast to the town of Kursk.

Zelensky highlighted the creation of a "buffer zone" within the Kursk area, the place Russia had stationed substantial army reinforcements. In accordance with him, this growth has hindered Moscow’s means to deploy these forces to vital battlefronts in japanese Ukraine.

"Importantly, the (Russian forces) can not now direct all this energy to our different instructions, explicit to Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, or Zaporizhzhia oblasts," he stated.