North Korean soldiers 'disappear' from front line after suffering heavy losses

Self-detonation and suicides: that's the reality about North Korea. These soldiers who left home for a fight there have been brainwashed and are truly ready to sacrifice themselves for Kim Jong-un."

He told Reuters

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

There are a lot of different arguments out there, both right and wrong,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters

Over the past three weeks, we have not seen or detected any activity or military clashes with the North Koreans. We believe that they have been withdrawn because of the heavy losses that were inflicted."

Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko told Agence-France Press

The special operations forces speak exclusively for the areas where our units are deployed, in this regard, we inform you that the presence of North Korean troops has not been noted for approximately three weeks,

said Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, the forces' spokesperson

Presumably, having suffered heavy losses, they were forced to withdraw,

he said in a statement

The presence of DPRK troops has not been observed for about three weeks, and they were probably forced to withdraw after suffering heavy losses,

a spokesperson for the Ukrainian military’s Special Operations Forces, Colonel Oleksandr Kindratenko, told CNN

Volodymyr Zelenskyypresident

We are still in the Kursk region… the Russian forces were not enough to push us out,

Ukrainian President Zelensky said last week at a speech in Davos, Switzerland

They are prepared for the realities of war in 1980 at best,

he said

They don’t take our prisoners. All of our servicemen we found are shot in the back of the head."

Amur said

They use grenades, which means they can blow themselves up... Despite all attempts to call them to surrender, they will continue to fight."

An unnamed Ukrainian soldier, using the call sign Pokémon, said