It’s the first significant estimate by Ukraine of North Korean casualties several weeks after Kyiv announced that Pyongyang had sent between 10,000 and 12,000 soldiers to Russia to help fight in the war.
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00:00Ukraine's military intelligence says that North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses
00:07in fighting in Russia's Kursk region. The GUR also said that North Koreans are facing
00:12logistical difficulties and supply issues.
00:15Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this week that 3,000 North Korean troops have been killed
00:21and wounded in the fighting. That announcement comes as the Biden administration is trying
00:26to send as much military aid as possible to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump
00:31takes over in January. In his nightly address on Thursday, Zelensky confirmed Washington
00:37was increasing military aid to Kiev but didn't give a figure.
00:56Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin threatened that Russia could again hit Ukraine with its
01:03Oreshnik ballistic missile that was first used in the strike on Dnipro in November.
01:10Speaking to reporters, Putin said Russia has just a few Oreshnik missiles but added that
01:17it wouldn't hesitate to use them on Ukraine.
01:20Putin also said that Russia was striving to bring the conflict in Ukraine to an end and
01:27that Slovakia had offered to be a platform for possible peace talks.
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