Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russian and North Korean forces suffered heavy losses in the fighting in the southern part of the Kursk region, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
“In the fighting yesterday and today near just one village, Makhnovka, in the Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantrymen and Russian paratroopers“, Zelensky said in his evening video address, referring to a report by the Ukrainian high command.
Zelensky did not provide specific details about what happened, which he called "important".
A battalion can vary in size, but usually consists of several hundred soldiers, Reuters points out.