North Korea is ‘executing’ its own soldiers to stop wounded servicemen from being captured by Ukrainian forces, President Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed while confirming a missile strike on Russia
North Korea is “executing” wounded soldiers to stop them falling into the hands of the Ukrainian army.
President Volodymyr Zelensky claims his forces have captured “several” of Kim Jong-un’s fighters but they could not be resuscitated and have since died. The Kyiv president also confirmed a missile strike on the storage and repair facility which manufactures Iranian killer Shahed drones deep in Russia’s Oryol region.
Zelensky has since spoken out on the “many losses” of the North Korean military in the conflict, after dictator Kim Jong-un sent his forces to aide Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. A separate source has since claimed there are communications issues between the Russian and North Korean soldiers.
In a post to Telegram, they claimed: “They don’t even communicate with each other during assaults, and the Russians also don’t consider it advisable [for North Koreans] to communicate with commanders and drone operators, because no one will understand them anyway.”
Zelensky has since claimed the North Korean top brass has “no interest” in the survival of their own military in Russia. He said: “We can see that the Russian military and the North Korean enforcers have no interest in the survival of these Koreans at all. Everything is arranged in a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans as prisoners.
“Their own people are executing them, there are such cases. And the Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection. Today we received reports on several soldiers from North Korea, our warriors managed to capture them. But they were seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated. This is one of the manifestations of the madness dictatorships are capable of.
“The Korean nation should not lose its people in the battles in Europe. And this can be influenced, particularly by Korea’s neighbours, especially China. If China is sincere in its statements that the war should not escalate, it must exert appropriate pressure on Pyongyang.”
His claims of a lack of care in the North Korean military comes as Zelensky confirmed a strike on the kamikaze drones factory on December 26. The strike was on a facility between the villages of Tsimbulova and Rudnevo in the Oryol region.
A statement released by the Ukrainian military revealed: “As a result of the strike, a storage, maintenance, and repair facility for kamikaze drones Shahed, consisting of several reinforced concrete shelters, was destroyed. This combat operation significantly reduced the enemy’s ability to carry out airstrikes using kamikaze drones on civilian infrastructure facilities in Ukraine.”
ASTRA media has since reported three Storm Shadow missiles were deployed by Ukraine for the strike. Storm Shadow missiles are supplied to Kyiv by Britain. The strike is said to have killed two Russian servicemen and injured seven more. President Putin has vowed to respond to strikes inside Russian territory, with this barrage at least 280 miles inside Russian territory.
