The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine published a report on the assault by North Korean soldiers on Ukrainian positions that took place in the Kursk region. Intense fighting lasted several hours,

A thousand North Korean troops who have been fighting in the Kursk region of Russia have been killed in Vladimir Putin ’s war with Ukraine, officials have said. Western officials have told the BBC that 36 per cent of North Korean forces fighting in Russia had been killed, injured or captured by mid-January.

Ukrainian operators from special units have captured another group of soldiers from North Korea in the Kursk region. Their equipment is surprising, as one was carrying a modern Russian AK-12 rifle. We present the performance of this final evolution of the famous Kalashnikov.

Russian forces continue to advance on Ukrainian positions in Kursk, according to the journalists' sources, citing Ukrainian military personnel fighting in Russia’s Kursk Oblast. The "sudden absence" of North Korean troops on the battlefield may indicate that they are regrouping and assessing their future actions,