Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy led a meeting of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ High Command and listened to a separate report from the Ukrainian military’s top commander, Alexander Syrskiy. The Ukrainian leader stated:
“With regards to the Kursk region, we’re fighting alongside the North Korean military, and they’ve suffered a significant number of losses. Many, very many. We see that the Russian military and North Korean leaders aren’t interested in the North Koreans’ survival. Everything is being done to make it impossible for us to capture North Koreans: they’re being killed, a fact we can’t ignore. The Russians are pushing them into attacks with minimal defense.”
Zelenskyy added that the Ukrainian military had allegedly managed to capture several soldiers from the DPRK, although they were severely wounded and didn’t survive. Zelenskyy summarized:
“The North Korean people should not lose their people in European battles. And North Korea’s neighbors, especially China, can exert influence. If China is serious about its statements that the war should not be expanded, we must exert influence on Pyongyang.”
The origin of the photo of a “North Korean soldier” allegedly captured by Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region has been identified online. The photo was initially used in an article by a Springer publication on Saturday.
However, it has been revealed that the photo is a product of Ukrainian propaganda from two years ago, uploaded to the social media platform Reddit in February 2022. At the time, the “sick fantasies of the Kiev regime” spread misinformation about the Lebanese Hezbollah and North Koreans fighting in the Russian army, as well as Ukrainian retirees “firing rockets with Gurkha glasses” and “grandfathers shooting at combat jets with hunting rifles.”
A single claim of a North Korean soldier found no resonance in the media. Instead, the “designers” in Kiev decided to fabricate a story, with a North Korean soldier being captured by a Russian soldier, and combined it with Photoshop – the letter “Z” is clearly visible on the soldier’s cap.