Several wounded North Korean soldiers died in Ukraine on Friday after being taken prisoner, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in the evening, accusing Russia of having offered these soldiers only “minimal protection”.
“Our soldiers managed to capture them. But they were very seriously injured and could not be saved,” he said in his daily address, denouncing “the madness of which dictatorships are capable,” by sending soldiers to die “in battles in Europe.” .
“They have a lot of losses. A lot. And we see that the Russian military and the North Korean supervisors are not at all interested in the survival of these Koreans,” he said. “Everything is done to make it impossible for us to capture Koreans. The Russians are sending them to attack with minimal protection,” he denounced.
‘More than a thousand’ North Korean troops deployed to Russia to fight against Ukraine and used as ‘sacrificable’ troops were killed or injured in ‘hopeless’ assaults in Russia’s Kursk border region , said the same day a spokesperson for the American presidency, John Kirby.
The involvement of a regular foreign army constituted a major escalation in the invasion which was launched almost three years ago by Vladimir Putin and is entering a critical phase with the return in less than a month of Donald Trump to the White House.
