” INDISPUTABLE EVIDENCE”
The SBU said the men’s get provided “indisputable proof of the DPRK’s involvement in Russia’s war against our state”, using the acronym for North Korea’s established name.
It showed a Russian military ID cards issued to a 26-year-old gentleman from Russia’s Tyva area bordering Mongolia.
One POW, according to the SBU, had this military ID card that was “issued in the name of another man,” while the other had no other papers.
According to some studies, Russia is using fake IDs to conceal North Korean soldiers.
The SBU claimed that the person who had the Tyvan ID had informed them that it had been given to him in Russia in the spring of 2024, during a “one-week connectivity training” period with Russian units.
The guy said he believed he was “going for education, not to fight a battle against Ukraine”, the SBU said.
The person claimed to be a soldier who was born in 2005 and had served in the North Korean army since 2021.
The other person wrote comments because of an injured neck, saying he was born in 1999, joined the army in 2016 and was a hunter rifle, the SBU said.
The people were taken by special forces and troops differently, according to the SBU, one on Thursday.
According to the SBU, they are being treated medically and “held in ideal circumstances that comply with international law.”
Russia’s military claimed on Saturday that it had seized control of the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine northwest of Kurakhove, which it claimed had taken control of on Monday.
The defence ministry said soldiers had “liberated” Shevchenko, a remote negotiation about 10km north of Kurakhove.
Shevchenko, a big town, is located north of the tank near Kurakhove and “is necessary to take under command, to defend the city from shelling”, the RIA Novosti state news agency reported.
” Then Russian forces can proceed further towards the northern boundary of the Donetsk Women’s Republic”, it said.
Russia claims to own annexed the Donetsk place, which it refers to as the Donetsk People’s Republic, though it does not manage the entire area.
Ukraine has not confirmed the loss of Kurakhove, which had round 18, 000 citizens before Russia launched its 2022 unpleasant.
The Russian military’s General Staff said on Saturday that army had stopped Russia’s disrespectful behavior in the area, including around Kurakhove.
Russia is even close to capturing the crucial area of Pokrovsk northwest of Kurakhove.
One person was killed and another hurt in Pokrovsk over the course of the past day, according to Donetsk’s provincial government Vadym Filashkin on Saturday.
In the southwestern Zaporizhzhia place, a Russian aircraft attacked a vehicle in a town near the front line, killing a 47-year-old person on the spot, its government Ivan Fedorov wrote on Telegram.