3,800 North Koreans have been killed or wounded fighting alongside Russia, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a podcast interview released Sunday that 3,800 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded in Russia's Kursk region to date.
ADZelenskyy's figure suggests that a third of the North Korean troops brought over to fight alongside Russia have been taken out of action.
Today, 3,800 killed or wounded," he told podcaster Lex Fridman, but he cautioned that North Korea could send many more, giving a figure as high as half a million troops.
That could mean about 100,000 North Korean soldiers serving in Russia within a year, he added.
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