President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk Oblast had taken two injured North Korean soldiers as prisoners of war. Zelensky said the two guys are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv and are receiving "necessary medical assistance". The president expressed his gratitude to Special Operation Forces soldiers and Ukrainian paratroopers for apprehending the North Koreans.

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Russian and North Korean soldiers typically kill injured North Koreans "to erase any evidence of North Korea's involvement in the war against Ukraine," he continued, adding that "this was not an easy task."According to a statement from the Ukrainian intelligence agency, the detainees were apprehended on January 9 and "provided with all the necessary medical care as stipulated by the Geneva Convention" before being transported to Kyiv.

"They are being held in appropriate conditions that meet the requirements of international law," according to a statement released by the service. The inmates do not understand Russian, English, or Ukrainian, according to the intelligence service, "so communication with them is carried out through interpreters of Korean, in cooperation with South Korean NIS (National Intelligence Service)".

Zelensky said in a statement shared on X and Telegram that the soldiers were "talking to SBU investigators" and that he had given the Ukrainian Security Service permission to allow journalists to speak with them. "The world needs to know the truth about what is happening," he stated.

Zelensky accompanied his statement with four photos. There are two injured males on display. A red Russian military card was shown in one of the pictures. Turan, in the Tuva Republic, which lies near Mongolia, is listed as the birthplace on the certificate.

One of the soldiers possessed a Russian military ID card issued in the name of someone registered in the Tuva Republic when the captives were apprehended, according to the intelligence service. The other had absolutely no documentation. According to the intelligence agency, the soldier who held the ID card admitted to security guards during questioning that he had received it in Russia in the fall of 2024.

He is accused of saying that interoperability training was given for a week to certain of North Korea's combat units at that time. "It is noteworthy that the prisoner...emphasises that he was allegedly going for training, not to fight a war against Ukraine," the statement from the SBU stated.

He claimed to have been a rifleman for North Korea since 2021 and to have been born in 2005, according to the intelligence service. According to SBU, the second prisoner reportedly provided some of his responses in writing due to a jaw injury. According to the spy agency, he was born in 1999 and has been a scout sniper for North Korea since 2016.

According to the Geneva Convention, inmates must be shielded from the public's curiosity and interrogated in a language they can comprehend. The Russians "are trying to hide the fact that these are soldiers from North Korea by giving them documents claiming they are from Tuva or other territories under Moscow's control," according to a statement from Zelensky's office.

"However, these individuals are from North Korea and are truly Koreans. "The president's office said in a statement. Despite Kremlin assertions, Russian servicemen were deployed in Ukraine in 2014 without any identifying insignia on their clothing. President Vladimir Putin did not deny Russia's use of North Korean forces in its conflict on Ukraine when questioned about it last year. He claimed it was a "sovereign decision" made by Russia.

One North Korean soldier, said to have been the first to be detained while aiding Russia's battle in Ukraine, died after being captured alive by Ukrainian forces, according to a December report from South Korea's spy agency. The White House claimed separately that North Korean forces were suffering large-scale losses. The Ukrainian Security Service stated that it "is currently conducting the necessary investigative measures to establish all the circumstances of the DPRK military's participation in Russia's war against Ukraine" .

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