Zelensky ready to hand North Korea back its captured troops

Volodymyr Zelenskyyukrainian President

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."

Zelensky has made similar claims, saying

I want to live here."

When asked if he wanted to go home, the soldier replied

(The ... They) said we were going to be training like actual combat."

When asked what his commanders had told him, he replied

Do you know where you are now?" ... Did you know you were fighting against Ukraine?"

One of them, lying on a bunk with bandages on both hands, shook his head when asked

In particular, those who express a desire to bring peace closer by spreading the truth about this war in Korean will be given that opportunity,

Zelenskyy stated

After seeing my comrades die, I hid in a dugout, and I was injured on Jan. 5,

the soldier said

There’s nothing we can say at the current stage,

Koo said

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The current battlefield environment, combined with drones and other technologies, have created situations North Korean soldiers have never encountered before,

Moon said

As one commander said, compared to the soldiers of the DPRK, Wagner mercenaries circa 2022 are just children. And I believe him,

Bondar said

The enemy does not surrender. They eliminate themselves according to the same scheme, a grenade near the head, and go. Those who remain on the battlefield are doused with flammable liquid and burned,

Bondar said in a post on Facebook on Sunday

They are young, motivated, physically fit, brave, and good at using small arms. They are also disciplined. They have everything you need for a good infantryman,

Chepurnyi said

They demonstrate psychological resilience. Imagine, one runs and attracts attention and the other from an ambush shoots down a drone with aimed fire,

Bondar said, claiming

They have been blowing themselves up when they see capture is in sight,

Lieutenant Colonel Yaroslav Chepurnyi, a spokesman of the Ukrainian army, told POLITICO on Monday

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

We continue to discuss the possibility of exchanges. We are interested in this,

Peskov added

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

We cannot comment [on this statement] in any way, we do not know what is true there,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked to comment on Zelensky's offer to swap the North Korean soldiers for Ukrainian POWs

Repatriating the North Korean soldiers against their own free will, despite the well-known risk of their punishment as ‘traitors’ by a totalitarian dictatorship, goes against the humanitarian principle as well as Ukraine’s claim of fighting in defence of freedom and democracy,

Shin said

Notably, memos found on deceased soldiers indicate that the North Korean authorities pressured them to commit suicide or self-detonate before capture,

Lee said

The deployment of North Korean troops to Russia has reportedly expanded to include the Kursk region, with estimates suggesting that casualties among North Korean forces have surpassed 3,000,

Lee Seong-kweun told reporters after a briefing from the South’s spy agency

It is noteworthy that the prisoner...emphasises that he was allegedly going for training, not to fight a war against Ukraine,

the SBU statement said

Volodymyr Zelenskyyukrainian President

In addition to the first captured soldiers from North Korea, there will undoubtedly be more. It’s only a matter of time before our troops manage to capture others,

Mr Zelensky said