Pyongyang will "invariably support" Moscow, North Korea's supreme leader, Kim Jong-un, told a visiting Russian delegation last week.

Some of the North Korean soldiers deployed to fight for Russia have already been killed, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Kyodo News on Dec. 1 without revealing their numbers. Pyongyang is said to have dispatched between 10,

North Korea has supplied Russia with weaponry and troops to bolster its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ukrainian president did not say how many North Korean soldiers, sent to bolster Russian forces, have been killed or injured in combat.

Russia is treating North Korean troops well right now, Ukraine's Zelenskyy said, as it wants more to come fight, but they will become "cannon fodder."

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that Russia will deploy a significant number of North Korean soldiers to the front line against Ukraine, where they will almost certainly be used as cannon fodder.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the Kyodo agency, stated that North Korean soldiers deployed in the Kursk region of Russia are becoming "cannon fodder." Even now, there are those among them who are killed and injured,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said in a wide-ranging interview with Kyodo News that some of the North Korean soldiers deployed by the Russian army to fight Ukrainian troops in the Russian border region of Kursk have already been killed in battle.

Intelligence reports indicate that 2,000 North Korean military personnel have been deployed to combat units of the Russian army, assigned to marine brigades and airborne divisions. Source: Andrii Cherniak,