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Two wounded North Korean soldiers have been captured as prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

The two men are receiving "necessary medical assistance" and are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv, according to Zelensky.

The president said he was "grateful" to Ukrainian paratroopers and soldiers from the Special Operation Forces for capturing the North Koreans.

He added that "this was not an easy task", claiming that Russian and North Korean soldiers usually execute wounded North Koreans "to erase any evidence of North Korea's involvement in the war against Ukraine"

The Ukrainian intelligence service said in a statement that the prisoners were captured on 9 January and immediately after were "provided with all the necessary medical care as stipulated by the Geneva Convention" and taken to Kyiv.

"They are being held in appropriate conditions that meet the requirements of international law," the intelligence service's statement read.

The intelligence service said the prisoners do not speak Ukrainian, English or Russian, "so communication with them is carried out through interpreters of Korean, in cooperation with South Korean NIS (National Intelligence Service)".

In a statement posted on Telegram and X, Zelensky said the soldiers were "talking to SBU investigators" and he had instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to grant journalists access to them.

"The world needs to know the truth about what is happening," he added.

Zelensky also posted four photographs alongside his statement. Two show wounded men. One of the photos showed a red Russian military card.

The place of birth on the document is given as Turan, in the Tuva Republic, which is close to Mongolia.

The intelligence service said that when the prisoners were captured, one of the soldiers had a Russian military ID card issued in the name of another person with registration in the Tuva Republic. The other had no documents at all.

The intelligence service said that during interrogation, the soldier with the ID card told security personnel that he had been issued the document in Russia during the autumn of 2024.

He is alleged to have stated that at that time, some of North Korea's combat units had one-week interoperability training.

"It is noteworthy that the prisoner...emphasises that he was allegedly going for training, not to fight a war against Ukraine," the SBU statement said.

The intelligence service reported that he said he was born in 2005 and had been serving North Korea as a rifleman since 2021.

The second prisoner is reported to have given some of his answers in writing because he had an injured jaw, according to SBU. The intelligence service said it believed he was born in 1999 and had been serving North Korea as a scout sniper since 2016.

The Geneva Convention states that the questioning of prisoners should be carried out in a language they understand and prisoners must be protected against public curiosity.

Zelensky's office said in a statement that the Russians "are trying to hide the fact that these are soldiers from North Korea by giving them documents claiming they are from Tuva or other territories under Moscow's control".

"But these people are actually Koreans, they are from North Korea," the statement from the president's office said.

In 2014, Russian forces operating in Ukraine - despite Kremlin denials - were sent without identifying markings on their uniforms.

Last year, when President Vladimir Putin was asked about Russia using North Korean troops in its war on Ukraine, he did not deny it. He said it was Russia's "sovereign decision".

In December, South Korea's intelligence agency reported that a North Korean soldier believed to have been the first to be captured while ing Russia's war in Ukraine had died after being taken alive by Ukrainian forces.

Separately, the White House said North Korean forces were experiencing mass casualties.

The Security Service of Ukraine said it "is currently conducting the necessary investigative measures to establish all the circumstances of the DPRK military's participation in Russia's war against Ukraine".

"The investigation is being conducted under the procedural guidance of the Prosecutor General's Office under Article 437 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (planning, preparation, unleashing and waging an aggressive war)."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjdek713d0xo

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him...
WINSTON CHURCHILL

Prisoners of war

Kiev is falling

Zelensky is comedian

Putin has no chills

Dem capture two Burayt Russians, na once dem brand them North Koreans 😂😂😅
Zenlensky and PR.

This war never still end, innocent people dying for nothing

They tortured the second one and cut off his hands

Ok

Watch the muslims how they praise putin.

Wetin bring North Korea soldiers into Russia Ukraine matter?

Senseless war.

The funny thing about this war is that after Putin's death, the new President might decide to reverse many of Putin's policies and give Ukraine some of their lands back to reduce sanctions on Russia.

China is flooding Russian market with cheap goods and killing local industries and Russians are not happy about it at all.


WriterNg start preparing for a counter thread 😁

Eiyaa

ColonelMichael:
Watch the muslims how they praise putin.

Islam is a type of mental illness.

They are just pawn

Make that fat headed toad kin Jong un enter battle field with his pot belle, look at the way he just endangered the lives of 10k+ innocent soldiers for war wey no concern am. What's he tryna prove?

Slaughter them now!

Zelensky

We all know the guy was a professional stand up comedian before he got drafted by the WEF to carry out their agenda of "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy"

The moment he became president, the popular electoral promises of "neutrality and do no harm to ethnic Russians" which he rode upon to become president was jettisoned and he began to romance US and the West, who needed a proxy for their war of attrition on Russia.

The agreement by the US after the breakup of USSR was that they (the US) thru NATO will not expand an inch eastward to wards Russia. But knowing the US for who it is, it was to break the promise in order to keep maintaining her hegemony and also with the fact they the US wants to occupy Ukraine because it the many rich mineral deposits in the land, but would want to do it after kil-li_ng off more than half of able-bodied men in Ukraine.

Of course everyone in the west are waking up and are beginning to vote out WEF stooge (Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, Justin trudeau, Rishi Sunak, Keith stamer, Emmanuel Macron of who is currently holding on for dear life)

bluefilm:
Wetin bring North Korea soldiers into Russia Ukraine matter?

Na PR stunts.
Ukraine just dey find sympathy from the west.

Even if say truly North Korean dey Ukraine wetin wan happen.
Countless western soldiers don die inside Ukraine, many as war prisoners, yet Russia no complain

fuckingAyaya:
Make that fat headed toad kin Jong un enter battle field with his pot belle, look at the way he just endangered the lives of 10k+ innocent soldiers for war wey no concern am. What's he tryna prove?

Carry your useless president go meet am, I wan check something

Even a fool knows these are not North Koreans. They are Russians from Eastern Russia -- from places like Tuva as the news report claims. They are clearly not North Koreans. We all know what Koreans look like and these men are not it.

Despite all the noise about North Korean soldiers being in Ukraine, there is no single evidence of it. Zelensky is only seeking sympathy from Trump, and nothing else.

Vicotex:

Carry your useless president go meet am, I wan check something

There's no microphone to lick inna battle field.

The level of lies from Ukraine is unimaginable.

fuckingAyaya:
There's no microphone to lick inna battle field.

lol

ColonelMichael:
Watch the muslims how they praise putin.

This is not a religious thread pleasee. Anybody can praise who ever they want

Ukraine no gree sha. I was thinking it would be an easy victory for Russia.

babyboy4every1:

This is not a religious thread pleasee. Anybody can praise who ever they want

And anybody can air their opinion as they want, isn't it?

ColonelMichael:

Islam is a type of mental illness.

Nigerians will always display their madness anywhere. Wetin concern Muslims with the people captured

What's the big deal if North Koreans are fighting for Russia? ... Is it only Ukraine must have foreign fighters?. Hypocrites everywherei.

Zelensky0 is getting nervous ....Trump is coming ...he would be left out in the cold to fight his war.

Vicotex:

Na PR stunts.
Ukraine just dey find sympathy from the west.

Even if say truly North Korean dey Ukraine wetin wan happen.
Countless western soldiers don die inside Ukraine, many as war prisoners, yet Russia no complain

You mean Russia that was threatening nuclear war, if French soldiers where to fight for Ukraine.
Russia is number one culprit in using foreign mercenaries. They cajoled Indians to fight for them, which the Indian government later gave a clear warning to Putler, they used Lots of south Americans, Africans and even Nigerians, they used mostly Bangladesh and West Asians.
Russia is a paper tiger, I wish will on behalf of Ukrainians

babyboy4every1:

Nigerians will always display their madness anywhere. Wetin concern Muslims with the people captured

Why are you triggered?

shoodboi2:
Even a fool knows these are not North Koreans. They are Russians from Eastern Russia -- from places like Tuva as the news report claims. They are clearly not North Koreans. We all know what Koreans look like and these men are not it.

Despite all the noise about North Korean soldiers being in Ukraine, there is no single evidence of it. Zelensky is only seeking sympathy from Trump, and nothing else.

Are you sure. How come they don't understand Russian but conversing in korean

ehikwe22:
The level of lies from Ukraine is unimaginable.

Yeah we know Moskova, Russia biggest war ship was sanked as a result of someone smoking cigarettes.