North Korean soldier peers up at drone after being sent into Putin’s ‘meat grinder’
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A soldier thought to be from North Korea peers up at a Ukrainian drone as he takes shelter on the snow-covered Russian frontline. The images have emerged after Kim Jong Un’s regime deployed thousands of troops to support Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion.
Ukraine’s 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade said that the North Korean ‘mercenaries’ had been ‘marching en masse into the meat grinder.’. The brigade also shared a video purportedly showing the reinforcements being mowed down as they carried out an assault in the open.
Further imagery purportedly shows the soldier in full tactical gear crouching down as he tries to take cover beside a tree in Kursk Oblast, where Ukrainian forces are occupying a salient on Russian ground. Multiple reports, including images of dead or captured North Korean troops, suggest Putin’s reinforcements are playing an active combat role more than 4,000 miles from their homeland.
Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko reported that at least 500 North Koreans took part in wave attacks on Plekhovo in Kursk, with their losses estimated to be about half of those who took part. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.
Up Next. The defenders repelled an initial advance before a second and third assault involving overwhelming numbers eventually wrested control of the village, according to Tsaplienko. The North Koreans’ losses were so heavy that trucks were used to remove the fallen after the assault at the start of December, he reported.
