The 2 captured troopers have been preventing alongside Russian troops in Russia’s Kursk border area, Ukraine’s president stated on Saturday.
Ukrainian troops have captured two North Korean troopers in Russia’s Kursk area, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy introduced on Saturday.
Zelenskyy made the feedback days after Ukraine started urgent new assaults in Kursk to retain floor captured in a lightning incursion in August that resulted within the first occupation of Russian territory since World Warfare II.
“These are two troopers who, though wounded, survived, have been taken to Kyiv, and are speaking with Ukrainian safety companies,” Zelenskyy stated in a submit on X.
He shared photographs of two males resting on cots in a room with bars over the home windows. Each wore bandages, one round his jaw and the opposite round each fingers and wrists.
Zelenskyy stated capturing the troopers alive was “not straightforward.” He asserted that Russian and North Korean forces preventing in Kursk have tried to hide the presence of North Korean troopers, together with by killing wounded comrades on the battlefield to keep away from their seize and interrogation by Kyiv.
Ukraine’s safety service SBU supplied extra data on the 2 troopers on Saturday. In an announcement, it stated one had no paperwork in any respect, whereas the opposite had been carrying a Russian army ID card within the title of a person from Tuva, a Russian area bordering Mongolia.
“The prisoners don’t communicate Ukrainian, English or Russian, so communication with them takes place by Korean translators in cooperation with South Korean intelligence,” the assertion stated.
In line with the SBU, one of many troopers claimed he had been advised he was going to Russia for coaching quite than to combat towards Ukraine.
The company stated each males have been supplied with medical care according to the Geneva Conventions and are being investigated in cooperation with Seoul.
A senior Ukrainian army official stated final month that round 200 North Korean troops preventing alongside Russian forces in Kursk have been killed or wounded in battle.
The official was offering the primary important estimate of North Korean casualties, which got here a number of weeks after Ukraine introduced that Pyongyang had despatched 10,000 to 12,000 troops to Russia to assist it in its virtually three-year all-out struggle towards its a lot smaller neighbour.
Final month, the White Home and Pentagon confirmed that the Pyongyang forces have been battling on the entrance traces in largely infantry positions. They’ve been preventing with Russian items and, in some instances, independently round Kursk.
