South Korea’s National Intelligence Service said this week that North Korean troops fought against Ukraine have disappeared from the battlefield.
NIS said Tuesday, “Since mid -January, there has been no sign that North Korean troops have been deployed to the Russian region, who are engaged in war.”
Last December, 11,000 North Koreans were deployed to Karsha last December to help fight Russia.
The NIS statement confirmed a recent New York Times report, calling the heavy casualties to North Koreans as the cause of their re -deployment.
Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky has said more than 4,000 North Korean soldiers were injured or killed – almost a third of the almost core. NIS put the figures at 3,000.
Ukrainian commanders in this field have reported that Russian forces have used North Koreans to lead the attacks, and they were ordered to end their lives instead of ending their lives, or on their own. Shot from
Al Jazeera was unable to freely confirm these claims.
The absence of North Korea can be temporarily reorganized.
Zlinski told the Associate Press that he had information that more than 25,000 additional North Korean additional soldiers were on their way to Karha.
Experts have also told Al Jazeera that North Korea is likely to reinforce.
The Russian army is also suffering more.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense estimated the Russian casualties last month, which was 48,240 last month-which is the second highest rate of monthly death in nearly three years of the war, which is slightly behind in the December.
One -third of these losses occurred around Pokrovask, a town in the eastern Ukrainian town of Donetsk, on which Russia has launched a deep war to arrest.
“Only in January this year, our soldiers neutralized more than 15,000 attackers [in Pokrovsk]On Saturday, Ukrainian Commander Inchef Inchief Inchief, Olsander Serusky, said.
According to a report by a Washington -based think tank, a think tank based in the Institute for Study of War, Washington, these sacrifices are being made to reduce profits.
In the war last month, Russia acquired 498 square kilometers (192 square miles) territory, ISW estimated in December as compared to 593 square kilometers (229 square miles).
“The area caught between December 2024 and January 2025 decreased by about 100 100 square kilometers (29 square miles), with a similar monthly crash rate, indicating that Russian forces despite less regional acquisition Nearly progress, “ISW said.
The ISW has previously estimated that Russia will only have a two -year war to complete the victory of Donetsk.
Ukrainian challenges in the battlefield
Ukraine is also suffering from workforce shortages and allegedly stopped efforts to build 12 new brigade, instead of using its reserves to fill the losses in existing units.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine regularly discuss war losses. But this week, Zillsky said the Ukrainian army had lost 45,100 troops on the battlefield.
Ukrainea Prada (UP) website reported on Tuesday that Ukraine’s armed forces are preparing to filter 50,000 reserves in the brigade fighting on front lines to change the losses.
According to the New York Times, the number of frontline units will be promoted to the fifth, which has described Ukraine’s frontline tropes in a quarter of one million.
An unidentified source said, “We need to do this to start the circulation procedure.” “The resources that are currently trained in training centers are enough to re -fill the units only, not for the full support of the combat component.”
Russia is also associated with its manpower. It seems that it is trying to surround Pocroosak to force its guards.
Victoria Tergobov, a spokesman for the Pokrovask, a Khostatia Group of Forces, told a telephone this week that the Russian strategy would surround the city to avoid civil war. “We are talking about covers the city, starting from the south and heading towards the clock – south, southwest, west, and so on,” he said.
Russian forces tried widespread mechanized tactics at the beginning of the war, but was confronted by a tremendous defense.
ISW believed that Russia had surrounded its first successful occupation of the city of Odico in Donetsk a year ago.
Since then, ISW believes it has tried to reproduce about 20-30 km (12-19 miles) wide panser movements, and may be on the Eastern Front on the arrest of Avdiivka Simultaneous, integrated, slow pins will adopt strategies.
For example, Russia claimed last week that he was making progress towards Kopaninsk, Khark’s city of Koppask, which, by occupying a dochen, is a claim that has not yet been picked up by geographical footage. – At the southern end of the front, Russia managed to envelope and re -occupy Velica Novasilka last month.
The war in the air
Russia continued the bombing of Ukrainian citizens last week, as it did in this war.
Russia launched 660 Shahid drones, about 50 missiles and 760 glide bombs in Ukraine during the weekend on Sunday, Zillsky said.
The worst attack came on Saturday night.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces general staff said Russia launched a joint strike across the country, including 46 different types of missiles, and 123 Shahid Kamikaz drones.
Zillski said Ukraine’s air defense stopped or destroyed everyone except six drones and several missiles, but a missile collided with an apartment building in Polatawa, killing 14 people and injuring 22.
The missile demolished five floors on one side of the residential building, with about 8686 people living.
“It was just a Russian missile, which caused so much suffering, suffering and harm, Zlinski said in his Syrian address. That is why Ukraine – and real peace – need guarantee.
Ukraine also launched its campaign to disrupt Russian military production and energy sources.
On Friday, its drones targeted, and provoked the Locoral Refinery in the Volgrord. The general staff describes it as “one of the ten largest oil refineries in Russia”, which processes 6 % of all crude oil manufactured in the country.
There were clear other targets, as the Russian Ministry of Defense said it had dropped 49 drones over seven regions.
On Monday, the Ukrainian drones once again targeted the Volgograd refinery, this time its main processor was allegedly damaged, and it also targeted the Australian gas condenset processing plant, which Ukraine’s special operation forces ( The SSO said that 12bn tonnes could be processed in a year, which allegedly prevents production.
Ukraine also targets Russian command bunkers and air defense.
On Sunday, Ukraine’s southern forces killed and destroyed the BUK-M3 air defense system, and a Ukrainian missile attacked a central command post in Kraki. “The enemy lost key officers from Russia and North Korea … I think we are talking about dozens of officers,” Zilnski told the AP.
Ukraine’s troubled ally
Ukraine’s European allies have announced the transfer and investment of weapons in Ukraine’s own arms industry.
On January 30, Sweden announced a new military spending of $ 1.2 billion for weapons and investment in the Ukrainian drone industry, raising its total military partnership to $ 5.6 billion.
On Friday, Finland announced $ 200 billion in defense items for Ukraine, which reached its partnership to B 2.5bn.
But the United States, whose military aid post has been declared unmanageable, since President Donald Trump took office last month, has now made his aid conditional.
He said Monday that Trump wants Ukraine Lithium, uranium and other minerals in exchange for US military aid.
“We are looking to deal with Ukraine, where they are about to receive them with their rare lands and other things,” Trump said, signing executive orders in the White House.
According to the Washington Post, Russia has seized half of the $ 26 trillion minerals estimated in Ukraine.
Even under the Biden administration, when military aid was not subject to payment, it was often inadequate.
A Reuters investigation revealed that the Biden administration had delayed the delivery of weapons to Ukraine last year, one of the reasons for partially increasing due to concerns and partially confusing US military branches What did Ukraine actually receive?
Investigations revealed that the monthly delivery between April and September is $ 558 million, but after Trump’s November election, $ 1.1 billion was shot in a month.
Even the increase in aid was not represented, Reuters said, but the monthly aid offered during the first two years of the war is just similar.
“By November, the US reservoir in 2024 promised that only half of the total dollar was given, and only 30 percent of promised armored vehicles arrived in early December, two US officials of Congress , According to two Congress assistants, an American official, Reuters wrote, and a lawmaker informed about the figures.
During this time, Ukraine lost most of the land in the 2023 response.
