Ukraine says it captured two North Korean soldiers in Russia’s Kursk

Wounded soldiers taken to Kyiv for questioning by Ukrainian investigators successful practice with South Korean intelligence.

Ukraine says it has captured 2 North Korean soldiers successful Russia’s Kursk portion and taken them to Kyiv, wherever investigators were questioning them.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the 2 prisoners of warfare were “communicating” with the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the country’s home quality agency.

“Russian forces and different North Korean subject unit usually execute their wounded to erase immoderate grounds of North Korea’s engagement successful the war,” Zelenskyy wrote connected X connected Saturday.

Ukraine’s SBU said successful a connection that 1 of the captured soldiers had nary documents astatine all, portion the different had been carrying a Russian subject ID paper successful the sanction of a antheral from Tuva, a Russian portion bordering Mongolia.

“The prisoners bash not talk Ukrainian, English oregon Russian, truthful connection with them takes spot done Korean translators successful practice with South Korean intelligence,” the connection said.

According to the SBU, 1 of the soldiers claimed helium had been told helium was going to Russia for training, alternatively than to combat against Ukraine.

The bureau said some men were provided with aesculapian attraction successful enactment with the Geneva Conventions.

Ukraine did not supply grounds that the captured soldiers were from North Korea.

A paper displayed connected a thoroughfare successful Seoul, South Korea, with sum of North Korea’s determination to deploy thousands of soldiers to Ukraine’s beforehand lines [File: Anthony Wallace/AFP]

Kyiv has repeatedly said North Korean troops are warring successful the Kursk region, wherever it launched an incursion in August, claiming power implicit respective 100 quadrate kilometres of territory.

However, this is the archetypal clip that the country’s quality services said they person had the accidental to question North Korean soldiers. While Ukraine had antecedently claimed to person captured North Korean soldiers successful combat, it said they had been severely wounded and died soon afterwards.

Last month, a elder Ukrainian subject authoritative claimed that immoderate 200 North Korean soldiers warring alongside Russian forces successful Kursk had been killed oregon wounded successful battle.

The estimation of North Korean casualties came weeks aft Ukraine announced that Pyongyang had sent 10,000 to 12,000 soldiers to Russia to assistance it successful its astir three-year warfare against its overmuch smaller neighbour.

The White House and Pentagon last period confirmed that the North Korean forces person been battling connected the beforehand lines successful mostly infantry positions.

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