Western officials have told the BBC that North Korean troops have already suffered nearly 40% casualties in the fighting in Russia's western Kursk region, in just three months.

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 forces described a different kind of enemy, fighting with unfamiliar tactics and little option to retreat.

North Korean soldiers, who are fighting alongside the russians against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk Oblast, executed Ukrainians who tried to

Weapons and notes left on dead North Korean troops in Russia give Ukraine a glimpse into their mindset — and show how they are quickly adapting to modern war.

Videos of captured North Korean troops posted online by Ukrainian President Zelensky show them admitting that they thought they were being sent on an exercise.

A North Korean prisoner of war captured by Ukrainian forces said he came to Russia not knowing who he would fight in an additional interrogation video released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on X,

One of the two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine this month has claimed that he arrived in Russia without knowing whom he would be fighting, according to another video of his interrogation released by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported that prisoners from North Korea have confirmed their transfer to Russia and a complete cut-off from external information. North Korean POWs, interrogated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU),