The president of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, assured that in the last two days in the fighting in the Russian region of Kursk the Kremlin Army lost up to an infantry battalion composed of North Korean soldiers and Russian paratroopers.
In his night speech, the head of state indicated that he received this information from the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, Oleksandr Sirski, in a meeting on the situation in Kursk, partially occupied by kyiv forces since last August and bordering the region. northeastern Ukrainian Sumi.
“Concretely, in the battles of today (Saturday) and yesterday (Friday) near a single village -Majnovka, Kursk region- The Russian Army lost up to an infantry battalion, including North Korean soldiers and Russian paratroopers“, he indicated in his message posted on social networks.
A battalion can consist of between 300 and 1,500 soldiers.
Zelensky did not explain how many soldiers from the battalion were killed or wounded.
On December 23, Zelensky maintained that the number of North Korean military deaths and injuries in Kursk have exceeded 3,000while four days later the Pentagon estimated that some 1,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded in just a week of fighting in Kursk.
According to Ukraine and some of its allies, North Korea has deployed about 11,000 soldiers to Russia to support Russian troops in Kursk.
In their incursion last August into the Russian region, Ukrainian forces managed to take control of some 1,100 square kilometers of the territory, although since then they have lost more than half of the occupied land, according to an analysis published the day before by the portal of military information ‘Militarnyi’.
Russia attacked Ukraine on Saturday night with 103 Iranian Shahed suicide drones and of other types, of which 61 were shot down by Ukrainian air defense systems and 42 were lost on the ground and did not reach their objectivesThe Air Force reported this Sunday in its daily report.
Unmanned aerial vehicles attacked the regions of Poltava, Sumi, Kharkiv, Chernobyl, Cherkassia, Dnipro, Zitomir, and Khmelnitski.
According to the Air Force, no impacts were recorded.
However, several private houses were damaged in the eastern region of Kharkiv as a result of the fall of a damaged suicide drone.
On the other hand, Russian troops continue their advance in the Ukrainian town of Toretskin the eastern region of Donetsk, where the front line already passes through the center of the city, according to the military analysis platform DeepState and a commander of a regiment fighting there.
According to the latest information, the Russians have advanced further in the last few hours in the city of Kurákhov, Toretsk, Shevchenko, near Dalne, Vozdvizhenka and Baranivka, all towns in Donetsk.
In Toretsk, located north of the city of Donetsk, it is the second consecutive day of advances for the Kremlin troops, according to this platform.
As indicated this Sunday in its morning war report by the General Staff of Ukraine, in this sector The Russians carried out 11 attacks in the last 24 hours.
The commander of the “Tsunami” regiment, known by his nickname ‘Mansur’, told the public television channel Suspline Donbas that “the fighting is taking place in the city itself.”
“The separation line practically runs through the center of the city. You could say that it is currently divided in two (the city), by the enemy and us”, he stated.
(With information from EFE)
