Ukraine's military said 21 troops were killed and 40 injured in the operation in the Russian region where it is staging an incursion.

Soldiers of the 8th Regiment of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces resisted an assault of North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for eight hours, killing 21 and wounding 40, the unit said on Jan.

"I didn't even know who we were fighting against," the captured soldier from Pyongyang told Ukraine's Security Service.

In the Kursk region, more than 20 North Korean soldiers were killed recently by snipers of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the repulsion of the assault, the losses of the North Korean military were: ・21 eliminated;

Ukrainian forces detailed the capture of a North Korean soldier on the western Kursk front in Russia on Tuesday.