A Ukrainian drone clip appears to show Russian troops on walking sticks moving across a barren field, before they are attacked.
"I didn't even know who we were fighting against," the captured soldier from Pyongyang told Ukraine's Security Service.
The wounded fighters were taken for questioning to Kyiv, authorities said, where they could reveal details of Pyongyang’s cooperation with Moscow.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy predicted that his nation's forces would "undoubtedly" capture more North Korean troops.
Ukraine said it retrieved a diary from a North Korean soldier that contains a confession of stealing from his Russian comrade and battle tactics.
The official was providing the first significant estimate of North Korean casualties, which came several weeks after Ukraine announced that Pyongyang had sent 10,000 to 12,000 troops to Russia to help it in its almost 3-year war against its much smaller ...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that his military has captured two North Korean soldiers fighting on the Russian side in the Kursk region, likely the first such development since
Ukraine said it retrieved a diary from a North ... The US believes Russia intends to share advanced space and satellite technology with Pyongyang, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
North Korea is expected to send reinforcements to Russia’s Kursk Oblast, mainly gun and rocket artillery units, Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said in an interview with The War Zone magazine published on Jan.
The deployment of North Korean troops to Russia's Kursk region tells much about where North Korean-Russian relations are going.
During his first term in office, U.S. President Donald Trump applied his particular brand of diplomacy with Washington's adversaries, publicly befriending Russia and North Korea while separately piling pressure on China and Iran.