Ukrainians captured two North Korean soldiers, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and the Security Service reported.
The President thanked the soldiers of tactical radical No. 84 of the Special Operations Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the paratroopers who captured these people, noting:
“These are two soldiers who, though they were wounded, survived, were taken to Kyiv, are communicating with SBU investigators. This task was not easy: usually the Russians and different subject from North Korea decorativeness disconnected their wounded and bash everything to guarantee that nary grounds of information remains. 1 state – North Korea – successful the war against Ukraine.”
According to the SBU, the prisoners bash not speak Ukrainian, English oregon Russian. Communication with them takes spot done Korean connection translators successful practice with South Korean intelligence.
At the clip of seizure one of the foreigners had with him a Russian-style subject ID issued successful the sanction of different idiosyncratic registered successful the Republic of Tuva of the Russian Federation. During interrogation, helium told SBU officers that This papers was issued to him successful Russia successful the autumn of 2024. Then, portion of the North Korean combat units spent 1 week coordinating with Russian groups.
He stated that helium was calved successful 2005, was a marksman and had served successful North Korea since 2021. The prisoner, conscionable similar the Russian subject astatine the opening of the full-scale invasion, emphasizes that helium was supposedly going to an exercise, and not to a war against Ukraine.
The 2nd captive of war confirmed the testimony of his compatriot. He gave some of the answers to questions successful writing, arsenic helium had an injured jaw. He was calved successful 1999, and has served successful the DPRK service since 2016 arsenic a reconnaissance sniper.
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