During a speech this Friday, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that several North Korean soldiers had died in Ukraine after being taken prisoner.
“The Russian army and North Korean supervisors are not at all interested in the survival of these Koreans.” This Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that several soldiers from Pyongyang died in Ukraine after being taken prisoner.
“Our soldiers managed to capture them. But they were very seriously injured and could not be saved,” he revealed during a televised speech, before denouncing “the madness of which dictatorships are capable” by sending soldiers to be killed. kill “in battles in Europe”.
More than 1,000 killed or injured
For its part, Washington assured that “more than a thousand” soldiers deployed by Pyongyang in Russia to fight against Ukraine had been killed or injured during “hopeless” assaults in the Kursk border region.
According to kyiv, 12,000 North Korean soldiers, including “around 500 officers”, including “three generals”, are in the Kursk region, of which the Ukrainian army has occupied several hundred square kilometers since August.
“It is clear that the Russian and North Korean military leaders consider them as troops who can be sacrificed (…) They are considered cannon fodder,” added John Kirby, the spokesperson for the Security Council American national.
On Monday, Volodymyr Zelensky said that nearly 3,000 North Korean soldiers had been “killed or injured” since their engagement alongside Russian forces and Seoul gave the figure of 1,100.
