“INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE”
The SBU stated the boys’s seize offered “indeniable proof of the DPRK’s participation in Russia’s conflict in opposition to our nation”, utilizing the acronym for North Korea’s official title.
It confirmed a Russian military ID card issued to a 26-year-old man from Russia’s Tyva area bordering Mongolia.
The SBU stated that one POW carried this army ID card “issued within the title of one other particular person” whereas the opposite had no paperwork in any respect.
Some stories have stated Russia is hiding North Korean fighters by giving them pretend IDs.
The SBU stated the person with the Tyvan ID had instructed them it was given to him in Russia within the autumn of 2024, when some North Korean fight items had “one-week interoperability coaching” with Russian items.
The person stated he believed he was “going for coaching, to not combat a conflict in opposition to Ukraine”, the SBU stated.
The person stated he was a rifleman born in 2005 and had been within the North Korean military since 2021.
The opposite man wrote solutions due to an injured jaw, saying he was born in 1999, joined the military in 2016 and was a scout sniper, the SBU stated.
The SBU stated the boys had been captured individually – one on Thursday – by particular forces and paratroopers.
They’re being supplied with medical care and “held in applicable situations that meet the necessities of worldwide legislation”, the SBU stated.
Russia’s military stated Saturday that it had gained territory in Ukraine’s japanese Donetsk area northwest of the logistics hub of Kurakhove, which it claimed to have captured on Monday.
The defence ministry stated troops had “liberated” Shevchenko, a rural settlement about 10km northwest of Kurakhove.
Shevchenko, a big village, is positioned west of the reservoir close to Kurakhove and “is important to take underneath management, to guard the city from shelling”, the RIA Novosti state information company reported.
“Now Russian troops can transfer additional in the direction of the western border of the Donetsk Individuals’s Republic,” it stated.
Russia claims to have annexed the Donetsk area, which it refers to because the Donetsk Individuals’s Republic, although it doesn’t management the entire area.
Ukraine has not confirmed the lack of Kurakhove, which had round 18,000 inhabitants earlier than Russia launched its 2022 offensive.
The Ukrainian army’s Basic Workers stated on Saturday that troops had stopped Russia’s offensive actions within the space, together with round Kurakhove.
Russia can also be transferring near taking the important frontline metropolis of Pokrovsk north of Kurakhove.
Donetsk’s regional governor Vadym Filashkin stated on Saturday that one particular person had been killed and one other wounded in Pokrovsk during the last day.
Within the southern Zaporizhzhia area, a Russian drone attacked a automotive in a village close to the entrance line, killing a 47-year-old lady on the spot, its governor Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.
