Ukraine releases footage of North Korean troops being wiped out by kamikaze drones in latest disaster for Kim Jong Un's forces sent to help Putin
Updated: 05:42 EST, 23 December 2024
Graphic footage shows the moment a Ukrainian special operations crew targeted a North Korean position in Kursk with kamikaze drones in the latest disaster for Kim Jong Un's forces sent to help Putin.
Dramatic video showed the drones circling troops as they scrambled to get away in an open field in Kurshchina, shared by the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram today.
Twelve vehicles were also destroyed during skirmishes in the open field, including three buggies, the military claimed.
The crew said it had killed 77 and wounded as many as 40 North Korean soldiers over a three day period of fighting in the region.
More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have already been killed or wounded in Russia's war with Ukraine, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) assessed today.
The new figure follows a report by Seoul's spy agency to MPs last week, which said at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed since entering combat in December.
Pyongyang has sent thousands of troops to reinforce Putin's forces, including to the Kursk border region, where Ukrainian forces seized territory earlier this year.
'Through various sources of information and intelligence, we assess that North Korean troops who have recently engaged in combat with Ukrainian forces have suffered around 1,100 casualties,' the JCS said in a statement.
'We are particularly interested in the possibility of additional deployments' of North Korean soldiers to aid Russia's war effort, the JCS added.
Pyongyang is reportedly 'preparing for the rotation or additional deployment of soldiers', the JCS said.
South Korea's military said that it has also detected signs of North Korea preparing to send more troops and weapons, including suicide drones, to Russia.
It added that Kim Jong Un appeared to be currently supplying 240mm rocket launchers and 170mm self-propelled artillery to the front lines.
'There are also some signs of [the North] moving to manufacture and supply suicide drones, first unveiled during [dictator] Kim Jong-un's on-site inspection in November.'
Such drones have been widely used in the Ukraine war, and Kim ordered a mass production of the aerial weapons and an update of military theory and education, citing intensifying global competition, state media reported.
The drone operators should be executed. So of the shot they do is psychotic, not tactical, just psychotic.