#Kursk Region

Marking one year since the launch of the cross-border campaign, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrskyi detailed the operation’s toll: over 77,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded, including around 4,000 North Korean nationals fighting alongside Russia.

Everyone was looking at the Russian-occupied Kherson. Ukraine struck near Kharkiv and pulled off what experts now regard as one of the most well-executed military operations since World War II.

In the fourth year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an unlikely player has joined “Russia’s coalition of evil.” Laos, a landlocked one-party authoritarian state sandwiched between NATO -aligned Vietnam and Thailand, is sending its sappers to Russia’s Kursk region under the guise of humanitarian demining.