Ukrainian soldiers fighting North Koreans: ‘They shoot well, they move well, but they are used as cannon fodder’
Kim Jong-Un’s troops fighting alongside Russia were withdrawn from the front due to high casualty figures, although Volodymyr Zelenskiy says they have already returned to the battlefield
In December 2024, the men of the 1st Battalion of the 8th Ukrainian Special Forces Regiment received an order unlike any other: they were to capture soldiers sent by North Korea to fight the Ukrainian army in Russia. The goal was to refute Kremlin propaganda denying North Korean involvement in the war. Not only did the 8th Regiment obtain evidence of the presence of Kim Jong-Un’s troops, they also obtained key information about the operational level of the North Korean dictatorship’s fighters in just over a month.
