North Korea is "executing" wounded soldiers to stop them falling into the hands of the Ukrainian army. President Volodymyr Zelensky claims his forces have captured "several" of Kim Jong-un's fighters but they could not be resuscitated and have since died. The Kyiv president also confirmed a missile strike on the storage and repair facility which manufactures Iranian killer Shahed drones deep in Russia's Oryol region.
Zelensky has since spoken out on the "many losses" of the North Korean military in the conflict, after dictator Kim Jong-un sent his forces to aide Russian president Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. A separate source has since claimed there are communications issues between the Russian and North Korean soldiers.
In a post to Telegram, they claimed: "They don't even communicate with each other during assaults, and the Russians also don't consider it advisable [for North Koreans] to communicate with commanders and drone operators, because no one will understand them anyway.".
Zelensky has since claimed the North Korean top brass has "no interest" in the survival of their own military in Russia. He said: "We can see that the Russian military and the North Korean enforcers have no interest in the survival of these Koreans at all. Everything is arranged in a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans as prisoners.
"Their own people are executing them, there are such cases. And the Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection. Today we received reports on several soldiers from North Korea, our warriors managed to capture them. But they were seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated. This is one of the manifestations of the madness dictatorships are capable of.
