North Korea has sent more troops to Russia, the spy agency of the South says that

According to South Korean intelligence agency, North Korea has sent more troops to Russia and re -deployed others in the western chair region.

It said that the exact number of additional soldiers sent was unknown, but the military officials quoted in the South Korean media said that they believe it was at least 1,000.

Neither Moscow nor Pyongyang confirmed the new deployment.

North Korea is believed to have suffered heavy losses in four months as his troops were first deployed to help Russia in their war with Ukraine.

In January, Western officials told BBC He believed that at least 1,000 of the 11,000 soldiers sent from North Korea were killed in the last three months. North Korea and Russia did not comment.

The South Korean intelligence agency also said on Thursday that North Korean troops in Russia were re -deployed on the front line in Cursk in early February “after about a month”.

Ukrainian special forces fighting in Kursk told BBC in January He had not seen any North Korean soldiers for weeks. Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky later confirmed that he had returned to the front line.

Earlier, reports responsible for South Korean intelligence suggested that North Korean soldiers were unprotected for modern war, and especially insecure for Ukrainian drones.

However, The culprits and other military experts have told the BBC These soldiers should not be underestimated.

Russian President Vladimir Putin started a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. The fight has caused heavy losses on both sides.

Last August, Ukraine laid an electrical emphasis in the Russian Kursk region, surprising the border guard. Russia has been trying to take them out since then.

While Ukraine’s advantage has been pushed back continuously since, partly due to the arrival of North Korean people in Russia in October, it still retains hundreds of square kilometers of Russian area of ​​Russian region and is suffering heavy losses on its enemy.

Since September 2022, the Russian army has not publicly disclosed the casualties of its battlefield, when it was said that 5,937 soldiers were killed.

Zelansky has a number of military casualties of Ukraine in 45,100 – but many military experts in both Ukraine and West believe that the loss is very high.

North Korean soldiers were deployed in October after deepening bilateral relations between Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. This included signing the security and defense treaty.