Ukraine's military intelligence agency has claimed that North Korean special forces fighters killed eight Russian troops in a 'friendly fire' incident.

North Korean troops recently killed Russian soldiers in a friendly fire attack, according to Ukrainian intelligence.

"We have seen hundreds of (North Korean soldiers) on the battlefield already, and (Ukraine is) successfully fighting them as we are fighting with the Russians," Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova told CBS News.

Russian soldiers killed by North Korean troops in friendly fire, Kyiv says - Zelensky warns Russia’s use of North Korean forces in Kursk will extend to other parts of war zone

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that Russia had begun deploying North Korean soldiers to storm Ukrainian positions in the Kursk region. Zelenskyy spoke after Russian authorities said their firefighters were battling a blaze in the western Oryol region caused by a drone attack,

North Korean troops joining Russian assaults in Kursk, Zelensky says Ukraine destroys Russian train with 40 fuel tanks in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, source claims 292 front-line clashes recorded over the past day,

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Moscow had started involving “a noticeable number” of North Korean troops in its efforts to drive Ukrainian troops out of Russia ’s Kursk region.