Ukraine is conducting an offensive in the Kursk Oblast in Russia, and the army Vladimir Putin supplies nearly 10,000 North Korean soldiers. Ukrainian military intelligence reported at the beginning of this year that the losses suffered among the fighters sent by Kim Jong Un were significant.
War in Ukraine. Kyiv captured North Korean soldiers
As the Ukrainian leader said, these are two soldiers who, “although wounded, survived and… they were brought to Kiev and talk to SBU investigators“. “It was not an easy task: usually Russians and other North Korean soldiers finish off their wounded (people – ed.) and do everything to prevent evidence of the participation of another country, North Korea, in the war against Ukraine,” Zelensky said.
The President of Ukraine also emphasized that the captured fighters are provided with the necessary medical care. He also emphasized that the same steps are also taken against other prisoners. The North Korean soldiers were captured by defenders from tactical group No. 84 of the Special Operations Forces unit and landing craft of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
“I recommended it to the Security Service Ukrainyto provide journalists with access to these prisoners. The world needs to know what's going on“- added Volodymyr Zelensky in the entry.
War in Ukraine. North Korean soldiers captured. “Irrefutable Evidence”
The Security Service of Ukraine also announced the capture of North Korean soldiers in the Kursk Oblast, emphasizing that this is the first shot of fighters supporting the occupier.
“In this way, the Security Service of Ukraine, which documents and investigates crimes, received… irrefutable evidence of North Korea's involvement in the war Russia against our country,” the statement emphasized.
The SBU notes that the prisoners do not speak Ukrainian, English or Russian, so communication with them is carried out through Korean translators in cooperation with South Korean intelligence. “At the moment of capture one of the foreigners had a Russian military identification card issued in the name of another person registered in the Republic of Tuva (autonomous republic in the Asian part of the Russian Federation – ed.). The second one did not have any documents,” we read.
One of the prisoners said in an interview with the Ukrainian services that he was allegedly going to training, not to the front, to support Russian soldiers.