North Korean troops have fought for the first time alongside Russian forces against Ukrainian soldiers in Russia’s Kursk region and taken heavy casualties, the Pentagon said on Monday.
Ukrainian troops launched an incursion into Kursk in the summer, and Kyiv said in October that 11,000 North Korea soldiers were being deployed there to help Russian forces try to retake the region.
“We do assess that North Korean soldiers have engaged in combat in Kursk,” Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder told reporters on Monday, following Ukrainian reports of Pyongyang’s troops entering the fray.
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