KYIV: A wounded North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine in Russia’s Kursk area has instructed interrogators that Pyongyang’s troops combating for Moscow are struggling severe losses, official video revealed on Monday (Jan 20) confirmed.
Ukraine has captured two North Korean soldiers within the border area and has posted movies of their interrogation, with one talking on digicam about his experiences.
Moscow has not acknowledged the deployment of Pyongyang’s forces to struggle within the Kursk area, as confirmed by Seoul and Washington.
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday posted a video of a younger soldier mendacity in mattress saying there had been many casualties after he entered the battle on Jan 3.
He was responding to a query in regards to the variety of useless and wounded amongst his comrades.
In a earlier video, the younger man stated that he hid in a dugout when he noticed comrades dying throughout an offensive on Jan 3 however was himself injured and captured two days later.
Within the video posted on Monday, he stated he served in a reconnaissance unit and whereas some North Korean troopers had been skilled to make use of Russian army gear, however he had not.
He stated he was delivered to Russia from North Korea in what he believed was a cargo vessel with round 100 others. They had been then transported by sleeper prepare, he stated.
The soldier stated he was conscripted to the army aged 17 and had been serving since then.
He repeated a declare from a earlier video that he had not identified he was being despatched to Russia to struggle.
