President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has revealed that a Ukrainian defence forces strike on a Russian military command post in Russia's Kursk Oblast resulted in the deaths of dozens of officers, both Russian and North Korean.

Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's former commander-in-chief and current ambassador to the U.K., proposed an incursion into Russia's Belgorod Oblast in 2022 to protect Kharkiv Oblast, General Viktor Nazarov told the BBC on Feb. 2.

North Korean troops deployed to support Russian forces in Ukraine's Kursk region have been withdrawn after suffering heavy casualties, say Ukrainian officials. Over 10,000 soldiers were sent by Pyongyang,