Confirming reports from Russian channels this weekend claiming North Korean casualties already surpass 500, in an interview with Kyodo News yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that some North Korean soldiers deployed to fight for Russia have already been killed, although he did not specify their numbers. It is reported that North Korea has sent between 10,000 and 12,000 troops to aid Russia’s war effort, with initial clashes occurring in the western Kursk Oblast of Russia.