A total of 3,800 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded by Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Zelensky said in an interview with American podcaster Lex Fridman on Jan. 5.

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Soldiers from the 8th Regiment of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces have killed in action another 13 North Korean soldiers during an ongoing raid in Russia’s Kursk region. — Ukrinform.

At the same time on Saturday, the Ukrainian armed forces reported 179 separate clashes along the tense line of contact, facing down attacks around the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the city of Pokrovsk in the country's Donbas region. They estimated as many as 1,730 Russian personnel were killed or captured in the assaults.

Russia has lost up to a battalion of North Korean soldiers over the past two days in its western Kursk border region in the ongoing war against Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that on 3 and 4 January, near the village of Makhnovka in Kursk Oblast, the Russians lost up to a battalion of infantry soldiers made up of North Koreans and Russian paratroopers.