Two North Korea soldiers captured alive in Russia as Ukrainian secret service quiz PoWs for vital info, Zelensky says
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UKRAINE has captured two North Korean soldiers alive in the Kursk region, President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced. The wounded men are the first taken alive since Kim Jong Un sent his soldiers to fight for Vladimir Putin. They are now in Kyiv assisting the Ukrainian secret service, the SBU.
![[A wounded North Korean soldier lies in a bed.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ukraine-captured-two-north-korean-963016088.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Zelensky posted on X: "Our soldiers have captured North Korean military personnel in the Kursk region. "Two soldiers, though wounded, survived and were transported to Kyiv, where they are now communicating with the Security Service of Ukraine. "This was not an easy task: Russian forces and other North Korean military personnel usually execute their wounded to erase any evidence of North Korea’s involvement in the war against Ukraine.
![[A wounded North Korean soldier sits on a cot.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ukraine-captured-two-north-korean-963016181.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"I am grateful to the soldiers of Tactical Group No. 84 of the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as our paratroopers, who captured these two individuals. "As with all prisoners of war, these two North Korean soldiers are receiving the necessary medical assistance.
![[A wounded North Korean soldier, captured in Ukraine.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ukraine-captured-two-north-korean-963016175.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
"I have instructed the Security Service of Ukraine to grant journalists access to these prisoners. "The world needs to know the truth about what is happening.". The military card of one of the captured men shows that the Russians gave the North Koreans fake identities with the pretence that they were from a remote region of Siberia.
![[Russian military ID card.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/ukraine-captured-two-north-korean-963016095.jpg?strip=all&w=960)