"Yesterday there was a train with about 100 people. Today there are 120 — that's already (about) 200," she says."How many more are there? God only knows," she adds. She also claims that wards are being emptied to make way for the North Korean wounded, and hospital staff have trouble communicating with them and are not allowed to speak to them in English."Are they elite, or what, these Koreans? We are freeing up certain wards for them," she says.The Kyiv Independent could not verify the veracity or contents of the call, but the claims made are in line with recent Western estimates of North Korean losses.A couple hundred North Korean troops have been killed or wounded fighting in Russia's Kursk Oblast against Ukraine, the Associated Press (AP) reported on Dec.