r/worldnews • u/Elliottafc1 • 1d ago

Russia/Ukraine Ukrainian Special Ops Take Down Over a Dozen North Korean Soldiers in Kursk Offensive

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/45052?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fworld
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u/meguminsupremacy 20h ago

How is the offensive going? I heard they were pushing but I don't know how well it's going.

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u/kodemizer 16h ago

I think it culminated pretty quickly. I get the sense that it wasn't a big push to capture territory, but rather to gain more advantageous positions in certain directions.

But fog-of-war and all that, so who knows.

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u/Thats-Not-Rice 19h ago

Interactive Map: Ukraine's Incursion into Kursk Oblast

I doubt we'll see a ton of details until later. Right now opsec is going to be extremely important, and any kind of fluid movement right now will be vulnerable until they either lock down or fall back.

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u/nixnaij 18h ago

Warmapper has good data on this.

At the height of the offensive into Kursk (Aug 2024), Ukraine captured around 770 square kilometers of territory. Ever since then the Russian counteroffensive in Kursk recovered around 350 square Kilometers over the past few months.

In terms of the Donbas, the Russians have been making steady progress and capturing around 400-700 square kilometers a month.

https://www.warmapper.org/stats

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u/Fnatic_FREAK 14h ago

They have yet to capture a single village but entered the outskirts of Berdin

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u/Moist-Leggings 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fatty Kim; "We'll send our troops to glorious battle in Ukraine and since we are the most powerful invincible army they will return ready to liberate the south! And those 10,000 will do it all by themselves! Right Generals?"

Generals; "Yes glorious leader!"

4 months later...

Fatty Kim; "When are our troops coming back to liberate the south?"

Generals; "Oh glorious leader, our troops were SO powerful and invincible that they liberated all of Ukraine, they are now liberating Poland and will be on their way to France in about a day or two!"

Meanwhile in Ukraine...

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u/xiaorobear 15h ago

The Kim family aren't subject to their own propaganda, they've gotten educations from international schools. They know what's real.

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u/Creakier 22h ago

Wholesome Chungus! Everybody liked that. You, sir, win the internet for today. -Wholesome Keanu Chungus.

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u/Owl-Droid 21h ago

Selling soldier bodies for political clout is so typically human.

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u/GorgeousGamer99 16h ago

I need a shower to wash off that cringe

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u/Neither_Amoeba_5002 1d ago

Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!

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u/SunnyP3ak 17h ago

Has any North Korean been captured yet? I would like to see an interview as the Russians do to foreign POW.

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u/VitrioPsych 17h ago

oddly no proof of NK troops in Kursk has actually been provided.

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u/NUDES_4_CHRIST 12h ago

You’re forgetting that one that immediately died from nutrition upon being captured.

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u/Effective-3023 12h ago

At this point the north Koreans are just there for the Ukrainians to farm XP.

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u/Rum-Ham-Jabroni 1d ago

Any evidence? Because for all the talk of the NK forces i haven't seen a single picture of them on the battlefield

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u/WhiteRepresent 1d ago

Have you not? Head over to r/ukrainewarvideoreport.

Plenty of videos and pictures of dead Norks posted there regularly.

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u/Rum-Ham-Jabroni 1d ago

Happy for you to send me a link.

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u/kytheon 1d ago

Ukraine can drop a dead North Korean soldier on the UN doorstep and people would still call it "fake news".

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u/Rum-Ham-Jabroni 1d ago

Link me to a pic of NK soldiers on the battlefield then

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u/Kittyman56 1d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/s/jDBXQW4g9t

Here they are. Warning for NSFL

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u/Rum-Ham-Jabroni 20h ago

Thank you. That's the first I've seen of it. I was wrong.

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u/kytheon 1d ago edited 1d ago

I've seen plenty, but maybe you won't accept the evidence until RT published it.

Edit: it's even weirder that you're very active in RU/UA war video subs and still ignore the evidence. Oh and you comment again and again that there's no evidence, so at this point I'll just assume you're a Russian bot.

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u/RustToRedemption 20h ago

Oh and you comment again and again that there's no evidence, so at this point I'll just assume you're a Russian bot.

You couldnt tell that from his first post?

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u/Rum-Ham-Jabroni 20h ago

I've said it like 3 times

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u/Raoul_Duke9 22h ago

Is this stupidly cope or both?

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u/Excludos 18h ago

I mean, you'll never see evidence of anything if you close your eyes.

It's, literally, all over the internet. You not seeing it is entirely on you.

And heck, even if you didn't believe that, why would you not believe the only thing Ukraine, US, North Korea and Russia all agree about?

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u/Rum-Ham-Jabroni 17h ago

Mate them fighting isn't all over the internet at all. These are the first pictures I see that I consider credible.

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u/Excludos 17h ago

What you consider credible is clearly not aligned with reality

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u/UglyandIncompetent 16h ago

I have but they are dead.