Zelenskyy has stated Russian and North Korean forces had suffered heavy losses.
“Ukraine is able to hand over Kim Jong Un’s troopers to him if he can organise their change for our warriors who’re being held captive in Russia,” Zelenskyy stated.
He posted a brief video exhibiting the interrogation of two males who’re offered as North Korean troopers. Certainly one of them is mendacity on a mattress with bandaged arms, the opposite is sitting with a bandage on his jaw.
One of many males stated by means of an interpreter that he didn’t know he was combating in opposition to Ukraine and had been informed he was on a coaching train.
He stated he hid in a shelter throughout the offensive and was discovered a few days later. He stated that if he was ordered to return to North Korea, he would, however that he was prepared to remain in Ukraine if given the possibility.
Reuters couldn’t confirm the video.
“Certainly one of them (troopers) expressed a want to remain in Ukraine, the opposite to return to (North) Korea,” Zelenskyy stated in a televised assertion.
Zelenskyy stated that for North Korean troopers who didn’t want to return house, there could also be different choices obtainable and “those that categorical a want to carry peace nearer by spreading the reality about this conflict within the Korean (language) will likely be given that chance”.
