EGN NEWS DESK
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned Saturday that investigators had been questioning two wounded North Korean troopers after they had been captured in Russia’s Kursk area.
“Our troopers captured North Korean troopers within the Kursk area. These are two troopers who, though wounded, survived and had been delivered to Kyiv, and are speaking to SBU investigators,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media, referring to Ukraine’s SBU safety service.
Pyongyang has deployed 1000’s of troops to bolster Russia’s navy, together with within the Kursk border area the place Ukraine mounted a shock incursion in August final yr.
Zelenskyy had mentioned in late December that Ukraine had captured a number of significantly wounded North Korean troopers who later died.
He mentioned Saturday that it was tough to seize North Koreans combating as a result of “Russians and different North Korean troopers end off their wounded and do every part to stop proof of the participation of one other state, North Korea, within the conflict towards Ukraine.”
He mentioned he would offer media entry to the prisoners of conflict as a result of “the world must know what is occurring.”
He additionally posted photographs of two wounded males with Asian options in bunk beds however didn’t present proof that they had been North Korean.
One picture reveals a Russian military ID card issued to a 26-year-old man from Russia’s Tyva area bordering Mongolia.
Some stories have mentioned Russia is hiding North Korean fighters by giving them faux IDs.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga wrote on X that the “first North Korean prisoners of conflict are actually in Kyiv,” calling them “common DPRK troops, not mercenaries.”
“We want most stress towards regimes in Moscow and Pyongyang,” he wrote.
