Ukraine is battling around 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk region as Vladimir Putin attempts to recapture the region.
Ukraine’s armed forces commander general Oleksandr Syrskyi said he had travelled to the front in Russia’s Kursk region where a surprise Ukrainian incursion carved out a chunk of land in August that Volodymyr Zelenskyy said could be used as a bargaining chip.
“(Russian forces) are trying to dislodge our troops and advance deep into the territory we control,” he said on Telegram.
Ukraine says Russia has deployed 11,000 North Korean troops
to the Kursk region and that they have already been involved in
clashes.
Moscow neither denies nor confirms their presence.
It is believed by NATO allies that Putin is hoping to recapture the territory before Trump’s inauguration on 20 January, The Telegraph reports.
A British defence intelligence assessment seen by the newspaper also shows that in the coming days Russia is likely to ramp up kamikaze drone attacks on Ukrainian positions.
What happened to Kursk?
In August, around 1,000 Ukrainian troops penetrated several miles into Russia’s Kursk region in a move which caught the Russian military by surprise.
It was Ukraine’s first such deployment into Russian territory since Moscow launched its February 2022 invasion.
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