North Koreans die – Despite the cold: heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine

In its evening situation report on Sunday, the General Staff in Kiev listed a total of 214 battles in the various sectors of the front. The focus was again on the regions around Pokrovsk and Kurakhove on the edge of the Donbass, where Russian troops had made major territorial gains in recent days with massive attacks.

Both parties contradicted each other in their reports, so that an independent picture of the exact course of the front was not possible. “The situation there is and remains serious,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The military blog DeepState reported that Ukrainian forces had at least re-established their position near Kolisnykivka in the Kharkov region.

Areas in the Russian region are heavily disputed
The Ukrainian-occupied parts of western Russia’s Kursk region again faced intense fighting. Russian troops have been trying to recapture areas occupied by Ukrainian units since the summer. According to Ukrainian reports, the North Korean soldiers integrated into the Russian units suffered heavy losses for the first time.

The Ukrainian unit ‘Madjar’ deployed there published a video recording from a reconnaissance drone on the X platform showing the corpses of soldiers lying next to each other in the snow. According to the image of “Madjar,” North Korean soldiers gathered their fallen comrades after heavy fighting on a part of the front. No independent confirmation of this was available.

North Korea is supporting Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine with about 10,000 soldiers who were transferred to the Kursk front with new weapons and equipment after a short training period.