Zelenskyy: Russia Loses Entire North Korean Battalion in Kursk Within 48 Hours
Zelenskyy: Russia Loses Entire North Korean Battalion in Kursk Within 48 Hours
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy highlights major losses for Russia in the Kursk area, with intense battles ongoing near Makhnivka and in the Pokrovsk direction.
For anyone who also doesn't know what a battalion is, Wikipedia says
"A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers.[1] Commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into several companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain. The typical battalion is built from three operational companies, one weapons company and one headquarters company. In some countries, battalions are exclusively infantry, while in others battalions are unit-level organizations."
Soviet-style battalions are half that size though. They usually get augmented with more hardware and are then used as independent units, in what the Russians call a Battalion Tactical Group.
If they lost a battalion, that's 500-600 people, if they lost the whole BTG, it's 700-800.
Do North Koreans even know about cell phones and drones?
It seems to me like they've just been pulled into some nightmare dystopian future where mechanical birds are blowing up their comrades.
Wasn't there a report recently talking about the north Koreans binging on porn because the internet isn't as restrictive?
I'd assumed they were using personal electronics for that.
I've seen some videos and diaries from North Koreans talking about FPV drone attacks but I'm pretty sure they only get a very basic crash course at most before they arrive at the front. Hell, even the Russians themselves don't have any solid strategies to deal with them aside from unreliable electronic warfare systems.
No they know machines exist. They probably just didn't expect strategies to be so different
every single one of them probably just teenagers yoinked from their homes because they're the only ones who can walk without a limp and/or bent back like everyone else in the village over 25
And they dont have liver failure yet like everyone else in the village
Honestly, from other things I've read about North Korean units, they probably just meet a height requirement.