North Korean soldiers, who are fighting alongside the russians against the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk Oblast, executed Ukrainians who tried to surrender.
The Wall Street Journal reports this with reference to the Korean branch of the Human Rights Foundation, which helped Ukrainian intelligence services analyze the documents obtained from North Koreans.
One of the found documents of North Korean soldiers states that the North Koreans began executing Ukrainian prisoners.
"Our soldiers, who saw other comrades fall, mercilessly killed those who tried to surrender," journalists quote a North Korean officer.
Earlier, the Washington Post cited documents from soldiers from North Korea, which also contain evidence of the murders of several Ukrainian soldiers, which allegedly angered Ukrainians.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on Saturday, January 11, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the Defense Forces captured two North Korean soldiers in the Kursk Oblast. According to him, this task was not easy: usually russians and other North Korean soldiers finish off their wounded and do everything to prevent evidence of the participation of another state - North Korea - in the war against Ukraine from being preserved.
The SSU also reported that the prisoners were taken to Kyiv for primary investigative measures. They are being held in appropriate conditions that meet the requirements of international law. The prisoners do not speak Ukrainian, English or russian, so communication with them is carried out through Korean translators in cooperation with the intelligence of South Korea's NIS.
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