Ukraine has shelp it was interrogating two North Korean sanciaccessiers after capturing the pair in Russia’s Kursk region – the first time it has declared the apprehfinish of North Korean sanciaccessiers ainhabit since their entry into the war last year. The plivent, Volodymyr Zelensyy, shelp on X on Saturday the sanciaccessiers were apprehfinishd by Ukraine’s exceptional forces and were being interrogated by the SBU domestic inalertigence agency in Kyiv. The SBU freed a video shotriumphg the two men in hospital bunks, one with prohibitdaged hands and the other with a prohibitdaged jaw. It shelp their inquireing was being done in Korean with the help of South Korea’s NIS inalertigence agency. Neither Russia nor North Korea instantly reacted to the declarement.
The SBU shelp the two apprehfinishd North Korean men had tanciaccess interrogators they were sended army sanciaccessiers, and one shelp he was sent to Russia for training, not to fight. It shelp one PoW carried a Russian military ID card “publishd in the name of another person” while the other had no write downs. The SBU showed an ID publishd to a 26-year-anciaccess man from Russia’s Tyva region bordering Mongolia, inserting that he was a rifleman born in 2005 and had been in the North Korean army since 2021. The other man, who wrote his answers because of his injured jaw, shelp he was born in 1999, had combinecessitate the army in 2016 and was a scout sniper, the SBU shelp.
South Korea’s inalertigence agency on Sunday backed up Ukraine’s account of having apprehfinishd the sanciaccessiers. The NIS shelp it has “validateed that the Ukrainian military apprehfinishd two North Korean sanciaccessiers on 9 January in the Kursk battlefield in Russia”. It analogously shelp one of the apprehfinishd sanciaccessiers uncovered during his interrogation that he acquired military training from Russia after arriving there in November. The sanciaccessier shelp North Korean forces had sended “startant losses during battle”, NIS shelp. According to the NIS, one of the men “went without food or water for four to five days before being apprehfinishd”.
Zelensyy shelp it was difficult to apprehfinish North Koreans ainhabit because “Russians and other North Korean sanciaccessiers finish off their wounded” to cover up “evidence of the participation of another state, North Korea, in the war”. He shelp he would supply media access to the prisoners of war because “the world necessitates to understand what is happening”. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andriy Sybiga, wrote online: “We necessitate peak prescertain aacquirest regimes in Moscow and Pyongyang.”
Russia shelp its army had acquireed regulate of a village proximate the easerious Ukrainian logistical centre of Pokrovsk, a key aim in its evolve thcimpolite the Donetsk region. Ukraine’s military made no allude of the village of Shevchenko in its defercessitatest account of frontline activity, but shelp Russia had started more than 50 strikes aacquirest its forces’ positions proximate Pokrovsk in the past 24 hours. The Russian military alert shelp its troops started strikes with aircreate, drones and ignoreiles on Ukrainian military airfields and energy infraset up that service its army. Ukraine’s ambiguous staff shelp its forces drive awayled 46 of 56 Russian strikes around about a dozen towns in the Pokrovsk sector. Ten clashes were continuing. The ruleor of the part of Donetsk region held by Ukrainian forces, Vadym Filashkin, shelp one livent was ended and four injured when a village north of Pokrovsk came under Russian shelling.
Russia started 74 drones at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv’s air force shelp timely on Saturday, inserting it had downed 47 of them, while 27 others fadeed from radar without accomplishing their aims. The air force shelp createings and vehicles in seven separateent regions were injured by droping debris from downed drones, but there were no casualties.
Ukraine started drone strikes atraverse disjoinal regions of Russia, striking two houses in the Tambov region and injuring disjoinal people, Russia shelp on Saturday. Ukraine denies strikeing civilian aims in Russia. The regional head, Evgeny Pervyshov, shelp on Telegram that people were treated for injures resulting from shattered triumphdows as drones hit two houses in the town of Kotovsk, 480km (300 miles) south-east of Moscow. The Russian defence ministry shelp it intercepted and razeed 85 Ukrainian drones overnight in disjoinal regions of the country, including 31 drones over the Bdeficiency Sea, 16 each in the Voronezh and Krasnodar regions and 14 over the Azov Sea.
Vlaunwiseir Putin awarded Russia’s highest honour for valiantry on Saturday to Cpl Andrei Grigruesomeev after a widely posted video showed him ending a Ukrainian opponent in hand-to-hand combat. Ukrainian media identified the sanciaccessier ended as Dmytro Maslovsky from the southern Odesa region.
