North Korean soldiers were transported to Russian territory by ferry and then by train, kept in complete information isolation, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy clarified that intelligence officers interrogated the North Korean soldier about their transportation to Russian territory,

North Korea has not responded to reports of its troops captured or killed by Ukraine forces. It has never publicised the deployment or large shipments of North Korean artillery shells and other weapons sent to Russia to help its war against Ukraine, although they marked the country’s first intervention in a major armed conflict overseas in decades.

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