South Korean intelligence revealed additional statements made by captured North Korean soldiers during their interrogations.

Yonhap reports on this, citing a statement from South Korean intelligence.

According to intelligence data, during an interrogation, one of the captured North Korean soldiers mentioned "significant" losses among North Korean troops in Russia. Both captured soldiers are not in critical condition.

"We will continue to share information related to North Korean prisoners in close cooperation with Ukrainian special services," promised South Korean intelligence.

It is noted that, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, out of the 12,000 North Korean soldiers that Russia has recruited for the war against Ukraine, already 4,000 have been killed or wounded.

The First North Korean Soldiers in Captivity

On January 11, it became known that Ukrainian fighters captured the first two soldiers from North Korea in the Kursk region of Russia. They were injured but survived. They were taken to Kyiv, where investigators from the SBU are communicating with them.

The prisoners do not speak Ukrainian, English, or Russian, so communication with them takes place through Korean translators in collaboration with South Korean intelligence. Both stated that they were going for training, not to fight against Ukraine.