A North Korean general was injured and several officers sent by Pyongyang to Russia’s Kursk region were killed last week when Ukraine launched British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at a Russian command centre, according to a Ukrainian official.

Ukraine's General Staff has reported that over 11,000 North Korean military personnel are stationed in Russia's Kursk Oblast and they have participated in combat against Ukraine's defence forces. Source: Radio Svoboda citing Anatolii Barhylevych,

Russian forces have managed to reclaim territory from Ukrainian soldiers in the Kursk region, new assessments have found.

It is the first time that Western officials have confirmed that a high-ranking North Korean military officer has become a casualty in the escalating Russia-Ukraine conflict.

In Maryino, located in the Kursk region, a North Korean general was wounded in an attack on a sanatorium. Several other North Korean officers were killed, according to Financial Times. As a source for the agency reports,

The Storm Shadow missile strike was reported to have killed a North Korean general and hundreds of troops in support of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, alongside the Russian general

North Korean soldiers reportedly suffered casualties in Russia, with 500 killed in a recent attack involving UK-supplied missiles.