The Russian army claims to have regained control of a village in the Kursk border region, with the Defence Ministry stating that the North Group of troops has liberated Nikolayevo-Darino. Meanwhile, Russia launched a massive drone attack,

A thousand North Korean troops who have been fighting in the Kursk region of Russia have been killed in Vladimir Putin ’s war with Ukraine, officials have said. Western officials have told the BBC that 36 per cent of North Korean forces fighting in Russia had been killed, injured or captured by mid-January.

Russia's military said Monday that its forces regained control of Nikolayevo-Darino, a small village captured by Ukrainian troops during their cross-border offensive into the southwestern Kursk region last year.