Ukraine captures two North Korean soldiers in Kursk, Zelenskiy says

By Max Hunder

(Reuters) - Ukraine has captured 2 North Korean soldiers successful Russia's Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said connected Saturday, the archetypal clip Ukraine has announced the seizure of North Korean soldiers live since their introduction into the warfare past autumn.

North Korean regular troops entered the warfare connected Russia's broadside successful October, according to Kyiv and its occidental allies, who initially estimated their numbers astatine 10,000 oregon more.

In a station connected X, Zelenskiy said that the soldiers had been brought to Kyiv and were communicating with the Security Service of Ukraine, the country's home quality agency.

"As with each prisoners of war, these 2 North Korean soldiers are receiving the indispensable aesculapian assistance," Zelenskiy said. He said that journalists would beryllium fixed entree to talk to them.

Kyiv says that North Korean troops are warring successful the Kursk region, wherever Ukraine launched an incursion successful August. Kyiv says it inactive controls respective 100 quadrate kilometres of territory there.

Pyongyang has besides been supplying Russia with immense quantities of artillery shells, according to Kyiv and its occidental allies.

Ukraine had antecedently said it captured North Korean soldiers successful combat, but that they had been severely wounded and died soon afterward.