The two North Korean soldiers are wounded and are receiving “necessary medical assistance,” Zelenskyy said in a post on Telegram. The men are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv, he said.
The SBU said the prisoners represent “irrefutable evidence of the participation of the DPRK in the Russian war against our state,” in a separate Telegram post.
“The prisoners do not speak Ukrainian, English or Russian, so communication with them takes place through Korean translators in cooperation” with South Korean officials, the SBU said.
Zelenskyy said in his post that capturing the North Korean troops was not a simple operation. ‘This task was not an easy one: usually Russians and other North Korean soldiers finish off their wounded and do everything to ensure that no evidence of the participation of another state — North Korea — in the war against Ukraine is preserved,” he said.