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South Korea National Intelligence Service said this week that the North Korean soldiers fighting against Ukraine have disappeared from the battlefield.
NIS said on Tuesday: “Since mid -January, there have been no signs of North Korea’s forces deployed in the Russian Kursk region, which is participating in the battle,” NIS said on Tuesday.
An estimated 11,000 North Koreans were deployed in Korsk last December, to help Russia fight a Ukrainian opposite that was launched last August.
NIS statement confirmed a report issued by the New York Times, which was cited with severe taxes among the North Koreans as a reason for their re -publication.
Ukrainian President Folodimir Zelinski said that up to 4,000 North Korea soldiers were injured or killed – nearly a third of the Legion. NIS number 3000.
Ukrainian leaders in this field reported that the Russian forces used the North Koreans to lead the attacks and that they had ordered the end of their private lives instead of arresting them, or shot their side.
Al -Jazeera was unable to independently verify the claims.
North Korean absence can be a temporary reassurance.
Zelenskyy Associated Press told him that he had information that an additional 25,000 soldiers from North Korea were on its way to Corsak.
Experts also told Al -Jazeera that North Korea reinforcements are likely.
Russian forces also suffer from high losses.
The Ministry of Defense in Ukraine estimated the Russian losses at 48240 last month-the second highest monthly victims in nearly three years of the war, only behind December.
About a third of those losses around Boucrovsk, the Ukrainian Eastern City in Donetsk, which launched Russia, incurred an intense battle to capture.
“In January this year alone, our soldiers neutralized more than 15,000 invaders (in Boukrovsk), of whom about 7,000 were killed,” said Ukrainian commander Olexander Serski on Saturday.
These sacrifices were made to decrease the returns, according to the Warning Center for the Warning Research Center.
Russia gained 498 square meters (192 square miles) of land in the war last month, ISW was evaluated, compared to 593 square meters (229 square miles) in December.
“A decrease of approximately 100 square kilometers (29 square miles) in the land seized between December 2024 and January 2025, along with a similar monthly victim, indicates that Russian forces take the same high level of losses in the short term,” said ISW.
ISW previously estimated that it would take about two years of war to complete the Donetsk invasion alone.
Ukraine challenges in the battlefield
Ukraine also suffers from a lack of workforce, and has stopped temporarily stopping efforts to build up to 12 new brigades, instead using its reserves to renew the losses within the current units.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine discusses war losses regularly. But this week, Zelinski said that the Ukraine army lost 4,100 soldiers in the battlefields.
Ukranska Pravda (UP) reported on Tuesday that the armed forces in Ukraine were preparing to liquidate 50,000 reserve soldiers in the brigades fighting on the front lines to replace the losses.
This number would strengthen the front line units by the fifth solutions, according to the New York Times, which was reported that Ukraine’s front line forces in a quarter of a million.
“We need to do this to launch the rotation mechanism,” a source who has not been named. “The currently trained resources in training centers are not only enough to renew the units, not for the full support of the combat component.”
Russia, also, aims to its working power. It seems that he is trying to surround Pokrovsk to urge defenders to withdraw.
“The Russian strategy was surrounding the city to avoid an urban battle. He said: “We are talking about the city’s coverage, starting from the south and we go toward the clock – the south, southwest, west, etc..”
Russian forces attempted large mechanical maneuvers at the beginning of the war, but they stumbled by a strong defense.
ISW believed that Russia conducted the first successful cleansing when it seized Avdiivka, a city in Donetsk, a year ago.
Since then, ISW has believed that it has tried to re-create PINCER movements about 20-30 km (12-19 miles), and may adopt a strategy for simultaneous, coordinated and slow movements via the Eastern Front designed to arrest Avdiivka.
For example, Russia claimed last week that it has made progress towards the cordon of Kupiansk, a city in Kharkiv, by seizing Dvorichna, a claim that has not yet been published by Geolocated clips. At the southern end of the front, Russia succeeded in envelope and restoring Vellyka Novosilka last month.
War in the air
Russia continued to bomb Ukrainian civilians last week, as it did throughout this war.
Zelinski said that Russia fired 660 drones, about 50 missiles and 760 sliding bomb to Ukraine during the week ending Sunday.
The worst attack came overnight on Saturday.
The general pillars of Ukrainian armed poles said that Russia launched a joint blow across the country, which included 46 missiles of various types, and 123 drones, Kamikaz Shahid.
Zelinski said that the air defenses in Ukraine had intercepted or destroyed all drones and except for six drones, but one missile hit a residential building in Boltava, killing 14 people and wounding 22.
The missile demolished all the five floors on one side of a residential building in which about 86 people lived.
“This was just one Russian missile, which led to a lot of pain, suffering and loss. This is why Ukraine – and real peace – require guarantees,” Zelinski said in his evening speech.
Ukraine, too, carried its campaign to boycott the sources of Russian military production and energy.
On Friday, the Lukwell drone was struck in Volgograd, and put it in ministry. The general corners described it as “one of the ten largest oil refineries in Russia” that treats 6 percent of all crude oil produced in the country.
It is clear that there are other targets, as the Russian Ministry of Defense said it had dropped 49 drones in seven areas.
On Monday, Ukrainian drones struck the Volgograd refinery again, and according to what was reported this time the destruction of its central processor, and also hit the Astrakhan gas condensate processing factory, which was reported to stop the production that stops the production, which stops production.
Ukraine also targets Russian warehouses and air defenses.
On Sunday, the southern forces in Ukraine and the destruction of the BUK-M3 air defense system, and the Ukrainian missile hit the position of the central command in Corsak. “The enemy has lost the main officers from Russia and North Korea … I think we are talking about dozens of officers,” Zelinski told AP.
Ukraine problematic ally
European allies of Ukraine continued to announce the transfer of weapons and investments in the arms industry in Ukraine.
On January 30, Sweden announced a new military spending of $ 1.2 billion in weapons and investments in the drone industry in Ukraine, which amounts to its total military contributions to 5.6 billion dollars.
On Friday, Finland announced 200 billion dollars in the defense items of Ukraine, by offering its contributions to $ 2.5 billion.
But the United States, whose military aid was unannounced since President Donald Trump took office last month, made its help conditional.
He said on Monday that Trump wanted Ukrainian lithium, uranium and other minerals in exchange for US military aid.
“We look forward to making a deal with Ukraine, as they will secure what we offer them with their rare land and other things,” Trump said during the signing of executive orders at the White House.
Russia has seized about half an estimated $ 26 trillion of minerals in Ukraine, the Washington Post reported.
Even under the Biden administration, when military aid was not conditional on payment, it was often insufficient.
The Reuters investigation has found that the Biden administration was delayed arms shipments to Ukraine last year, partly due to concerns about escalation and partly due to the confusion between US military branches about what Ukraine has already received.
The investigation found that the monthly shipments amounted to $ 558 million between April and September, but it rose to $ 1.1 billion a month after Trump’s victory in the November elections.
Reuters said that there is no increase in assistance, but only the monthly aid provided during the first two years of the war.
By November, about half of the total amount of the dollar in which the United States promised in 2024 US stocks, and only about 30 percent of the armored vehicles promised by early December, according to assistants in Congress, a US official, have been written. Reuters that Reuters had seen the data.
During this time, Ukraine lost most of its lands in the 2023 counter -attack.
