March 8, 2026

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NYT: The Pentagon announced "hundreds" killed or wounded North Korean soldiers (video)


The Pentagon says Ukrainian troops may have killed or wounded “several hundred” North Korean troops. The SBU published an interception confirming this.

About this writes The New York Times newspaper, citing the words of a senior official of the US Department of Defense. He stated that Ukrainian troops killed or wounded “several hundred” North Korean soldiers sent to help Russia in its war against Ukraine.

According to the Pentagon, the Russian Federation has assembled a joint force of 50 thousand Russian and North Korean troops to oust Ukrainian troops from the border Kursk region. A US Department of Defense spokesman said that North Koreans were not battle-hardenedand that Ukraine struck their command posts, as well as infantry positions.

North Korea and Russia intensified their cooperation after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The countries signed an agreement that obliges each side to provide immediate military assistance to the other in the event of armed aggression against one of them. Recently the Ukrainian military made public photos and videos of killed Russian and North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region after the recent assaults.

Interception Security services of Ukraine indicates that Defense forces inflict serious losses on Russian and North Korean units in the Kursk region.

In a conversation, a hospital nurse in the Moscow region talks with her husband, who is fighting against Ukraine in the Kharkov region, and says that in just a few days more than 200 wounded North Korean soldiers were brought to one of the Russian hospitals near Moscow:

“Yesterday there was a train with about 100 people. Today another 120 – that’s already 200. And how many of them are there still? Only God knows.”



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