Ukraine killed multiple North Korean officers in a strike on a command post in Russia’s Kursk region on Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, amid reports of DPRK forces retreating. He also warned that over 20,000 North Korean soldiers could soon join the war.

The Ukrainian armed forces launched a missile strike on a “central command post,” resulting in the deaths of “key Russian and North Korean officers,” Zelensky told the Associated Press on Saturday.

He confirmed that the North Korean contingent had suffered heavy lossesand had not participated in recent assaults on Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region, following