Ukraine's president told podcaster Lex Fridman that 3,800 North Koreans had been killed or wounded fighting alongside Russia but many more could come.

A total of 3,800 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded by Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Zelensky said in an interview with American podcaster Lex Fridman on Jan. 5.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russian and North Korean forces have suffered heavy losses in fighting in Russia's southern Kursk region.

Despite Moscow’s efforts to rapidly repel Ukrainian forces, early counterattacks failed, leaving Russian troops shattered. Moscow assembled a 45,000-strong group to retake the Kursk region, but their disorganized counteroffensives repeatedly failed.

At the same time on Saturday, the Ukrainian armed forces reported 179 separate clashes along the tense line of contact, facing down attacks around the northeastern city of Kharkiv and the city of Pokrovsk in the country's Donbas region. They estimated as many as 1,730 Russian personnel were killed or captured in the assaults.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reported substantial losses among Russian and North Korean forces during recent battles in the southern Kursk region of Russia. "Yesterday and today, near the village of Makhnovka in the Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroops,"

The Ukrainian leader said the Russian army had lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroops in recent days.