North Korean troops deployed alongside Russian forces in the Kursk region reportedly engaged in excessive drinking during New Year’s Eve celebrations, according to Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) on January 2.

"It is clear that Russian and North Korean military leaders are treating these troops as expendable and ordering them on hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defenses," National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby said on Dec.

North Korean troops supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are conducting ground assaults against Ukrainian forces that have led to “heavy casualties,” a White House spokesman said.

Lower-ranking commanders in the Russian military are reportedly providing false accounts of casualties among North Korean soldiers stationed in Russia's Kursk region. — Ukrinform.

North Korea is preparing to deploy additional troops and weapons, including kamikaze drones, to aid Russia in its full-scale war against Ukraine. After Pyongyang sent thousands of troops to fight in Russia,

A North Korean soldier captured by Ukrainian forces for the first time in the Russo-Ukraine War has died of wounds, sources from both Kyiv and Seoul claimed Friday.

Ukrainian military intelligence has claimed that North Korean soldiers are struggling in the war against Ukraine and have turned to alcohol to cope

Russians continue to engage units of the army of North Korea in combat operations in the Kursk region. On New Year's Eve, the North Korean soldiers got drunk, according to the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine.