South Korea’s navy management stated on Monday that over 1,000 North Korean troops had been killed or wounded since becoming a member of Russia’s warfare towards Ukraine.
“Through varied sources of data and intelligence, we assess that North Korean troops who’ve just lately engaged in fight with Ukrainian forces have suffered round 1,100 casualties,” Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) stated in a press release.
The JCS additionally stated that Pyongyang was “making ready for the rotation or further deployment of troopers.”
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated afterward Monday that greater than 3,000 North Korean troopers had been killed or wounded in combating with Ukrainian troops.
Last week South Korea’s intelligence company advised MPs there had been some 100 deaths with one other 1,000 wounded within the Kursk area the place Ukrainian forces had launched a shock incursion in August. Ukraine has since misplaced giant parts of the territory it seized.
In October the National Intelligence Service stated that as many as 12,000 North Korean troops had been despatched to Russia to assist help its warfare in Ukraine.
Seoul warns of Pyongyang’s navy ambitions
The JCS additionally stated that Pyongyang was producing “self-destructible drones” to additional help Moscow together with supplying “240mm rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled artillery” to Russian forces.
“Suicide drones are one of many duties that Kim Jong Un has targeted on,” the Reuters information company cited a JCS official as saying, including that the North had expressed its intention to provide them to Russia.
South Korea’s navy management stated that it was seemingly North Korea was looking for to revamp its standard warfare capabilities utilizing the expertise from the Russia-Ukraine battle.
“This might result in a rise within the North’s navy menace towards us,” it stated.
Moscow and Pyongyang have strengthened their navy ties because the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
A protection pact between Pyongyang and Moscow, signed in June, got here into drive this month.
IMF pays out $1.1 billion to Ukraine
Ukraine obtained $1.1 billion (€1 billion) from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday, the nation’s prime minister stated in a publish on Telegram.
It is the sixth installment from a program that has already offered the nation $9.8 billion.
In November, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal stated Ukraine had already obtained greater than $100 billion in monetary assist from overseas because the starting of the Russian full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Russia claims extra battlefield advances
Meanwhile, Russia stated Monday that the village of Storozheve in japanese Ukraine had been captured.
The settlement is located close to the city of Velyka Novosilka which Russian troops look like making an attempt to encircle.
While the claims can’t be independently verified, Russia has been making regular advances in the Donetsk area towards outgunned and outnumbered Ukrainian forces.
Russia can be persevering with its each day aerial bombardment of Ukraine, with Kyiv reporting that 47 out of 72 Russian drones had been shot down throughout the nation.
In a press release on Telegram, Ukraine’s navy stated that assaults had been repelled in 9 areas together with close to the capital. It added that 25 of the drones launched had failed to succeed in their targets.
kb/rm (AFP, Reuters)
