President Zelensky says the Russian military and its North Korean overseers have no interest in the survival of the common soldier (Picture: Reuters)
FORCES NEWS | Published December 28, 2024
North Korean soldiers are being killed by their own side to prevent them from being captured by Ukrainian forces, President Zelensky has announced.
The Ukrainian leader said he had received information from the frontline revealing how wounded North Korean troops were being finished off to prevent them from falling into the hands of their enemy.
“Everything is done in a way to prevent these North Koreans from being captured by us. Their own side finishes them off. There are such facts,” he said.
“There are details regarding the situation in the Kursk region: battles involving North Korean soldiers,” Mr Zelensky added in a message released online.
“They are suffering heavy losses, and it’s evident that the Russian military and their North Korean overseers have no interest in these soldiers’ survival.
“Moreover, Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection.
“Today, we received reports that several North Korean soldiers were taken prisoner by our forces. However, they were severely wounded, and it was not possible to save them.
“This is one of the manifestations of the madness dictatorships are capable of.
“The people of North Korea should not be losing their lives in battles in Europe.”
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President Zelensky was briefed on the situation by General Oleksandr Syrskyi, with additional reports also being received from Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Kharkiv.
North Korea is believed to have deployed at least 12,000 soldiers and 500 officers – including three generals – to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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SOURCE: www.forcesnews.com
RELATED: North Korean soldiers commit suicide to avoid capture – White House
UKRAINSKA PRAVDA | Published December 28, 2024
The United States has said that North Korean soldiers fighting against Ukraine on the side of Russia in Kursk Oblast are committing suicide to avoid being captured by the Ukrainian defence forces.
Source: White House representative John Kirby at a briefing on Friday, 27 December, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Kirby said that Russian and North Korean leaders view the North Koreans as expendable and give them orders to conduct “hopeless assaults against Ukrainian defences”.
He noted that these soldiers seem to have been indoctrinated and insist on attacking even when it is clear that this would be unsuccessful.
“We also have reports of North Korean soldiers taking their own lives rather than surrendering to Ukrainian forces, likely out of fear of reprisal against their families in North Korea in the event that they’re captured,” Kirby said.
Kirby added that regardless of all the things the Russian military is giving these troops – their rifles, ammunition, artillery, backpacks, etc. – he hopes they are giving these commanders a lot of body bags because “they’re clearly going to need it”.
Background:
During this briefing, it also became known that in the last week alone, North Korean troops have lost a thousand killed and wounded in Kursk Oblast.
It should be noted that on Friday, 27 December, South Korean intelligence confirmed the capture by the Ukrainian military of a wounded North Korean soldier who had fought on the side of Russia.
Later, South Korean intelligence officers, citing data from a “friendly country”, reported that he had died.
The Pentagon had previously predicted an increase in casualties among the North Korean military, which continues to take part in the fighting in Kursk Oblast.
Nonetheless, US intelligence services believe that the deployment of North Korean troops in Russia was North Korea’s idea, not Russia’s.
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SOURCE: www.pravda.com.ua
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