Russia and North Korea may have lost around 400 troops in a single attempt to capture the village of Makhnovka in western Russia’s Kursk Oblast last week.

Present Ukrainians. Volodymyr Zelensky broadcast the news of General Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukrainian commander, on stage on Saturday. “In today’s battles and only one village, Makhnovka in the Kursk region, the Russian army lost opposite to an infantry battalion, adding to the North Korean infantry and Russian paratroopers,” Zelensky said. “And it’s tangible. “

Makhnovka, which lies in the no-man’s-land on the eastern edge of the 250-square-mile salient Ukrainian troops carved out of Kursk in August, has been the scene of fierce fighting for days. Videos circulating on social media depict Russian and North Korean troops marching into the village and coming under attack by Ukrainian infantry, tanks and drones.

The analyst Andrew Perpetua, who examines social networks to count the Russian and Ukrainian losses seemed to verify the Russian sick people who faced Zelensky. “I feel that I am watching a total Russian battalion in a single video,” Perpetual said on Monday. He said he had visually shown 408 patients in one day.

The segment of 4 thousand of the front line between Makhnovka in the north and Plekhove in the south is the maximum extensive sector in Kursk. The clashes were less common around Makhnovka than were, for example, Zelenyi Shylakh in the western aspect of the outgoing.

But it is conceivable that the singles fights in Makhnovka and Plekhove were bloody. Attacking in 3 waves through open fields leading out of the Plekhove gates on December 14, more than 500 North Korean infantry despite everything controlled to expel the hundred Ukrainian troops holding the village.

But walking loosely on snowy terrain, the North Koreans were simple targets for drones and withdrawn Ukrainian artillery. North Korea’s losses, killed and wounded, would possibly have accounted for more than part of the strike force, Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko said.

Last weekend’s Russian attack on Makhnovka may have been even costlier—and less successful. Not only is Makhnovka still in the gray zone between Ukrainian and Russian control, there is some evidence that Ukrainian troops—possibly from the 61st Mechanized Brigade, 36th Separate Rifle Battalion or attached territorial brigades—actually advanced a short distance around the same time as many as 400 Russians lay dead or wounded on the same terrain.

The heavy casualties on the Russian and North Korean side is beginning to weigh on the two-month-old Russian-led counteroffensive in Kursk. “In Kursk Oblast, combat operations have intensified to the maximum level, forcing the Russian grouping there to expend all available resources,” the Ukrainian Center for Defense Strategies reported.

“This comes at an extremely inconvenient and disadvantageous time for them,” the group added. “If intensive fighting continues for another five to 10 days, the Russian grouping will need to be rapidly replenished, as it is already suffering significant losses in counter-battles. This replenishment can only be achieved by redeploying forces from other sections of the front.”

Sources:

1. Volodymyr Zelensky

2. Andrew Perpetua (and here)

3. Ukraine card

4. Andriy Tsaplienko

5. Center for Defense Strategies

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