North Korean troops have not been seen on the frontlines in Russia’s Kursk region for several weeks, a Ukrainian military official said Friday, amid reports of mass casualties among Pyongyang’s forces.

North Korea sent its best troops to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine. But after months of suffering severe losses, they have been taken off the front line.

Soldiers fighting the war in Ukraine have revealed that some of the North Korean troops who are helping the Russian's blow themselves up or bite their open wounds

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this month that as many as 4,000 North Korean troops have been killed or wounded in recent weeks, with only two captured alive. Both men were wounded and transferred to custody in Kyiv, where Zelenskyy said they are being interrogated and treated for their injuries.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is understood to have sent 11,000 troops to Russia to help Mad Vlad's forces in their battle to take back the Russian Kursk region which was taken by Ukraine in an Au