Kremlin refuses to comment on Zelenskyy's statement about North Korean troops
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Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:16:37 +0200
The Kremlin is not commenting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyys statement that Ukraine is ready to hand over captured North Korean soldiers to North Korea if an exchange for Ukrainian soldiers is organised.
Source Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for the Russian leader, quoted by TASS, a Russian stateowned news agency Quote from Peskov We cannot comment on it in any way.
We do not know what is true, who offered what, and to whom.
Background On 11 January, President Zelenskyy and the Security Service of Ukraine reported that Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean servicemen in Russias Kursk Oblast.
Special Operations Forces released footage of the capture and evacuation of one North Korean soldier from Russia.
The other was shown by Ukraines Air Assault Forces.
Russian media reported that a forged military ID found on one of the North Korean POWs in Kursk Oblast was issued under the name of a real resident of Russias Tuva Republic.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shared the first video of the interrogation of North Korean soldiers captured in Russias Kursk Oblast and stated that Ukraine is ready to return them to their home country as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia.
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