The hunt for one of the mountain of dead North Koreans that Zelenskiy keeps saying is accumulating in Kursk goes on.
"Our place should have been there [in eastern Ukraine], not here in someone else’s land,” Pavlo said. “We don’t need these Kursk forests, in which we left so many comrades.”
And despite weeks of reports suggesting that as many as 10,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Kursk to join the Russian counter-offensive, the soldiers we’ve been in contact have yet to encounter them.
“I haven’t seen or heard anything about Koreans, alive or dead,” Vadym responded when we asked about the reports.
The Ukrainian military has released recordings which it says are intercepts of North Korean radio communications.
Soldiers said they had been told to capture at least one North Korean prisoner, preferably with documents.
They spoke of rewards - drones or extra leave - being offered to anyone who successfully captures a North Korean soldier.
“It’s very difficult to find a Korean in the dark Kursk forest,” Pavlo noted sarcastically. “Especially if he’s not here.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x9gz4ylwo
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He said the Russian troops Ukrainians faced in Kursk were a mixture of well-trained paratroopers from the 76th Brigade, but also less organised Chechens, and African mercenaries. But he has seen no sign of the 12,000 North Korean troops that, according to the Pentagon, have been sent to Kursk. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky also told the Japanese Kyodo news agency Sunday that some North Koreans had been killed by Ukrainian forces and that they would ultimately be used as “cannon fodder” by the Kremlin.
"When we catch them or see a body,” Oleksandr said, “then I’ll know for sure that they’re here.”
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/03/europe/ukraine-russia-kursk-soldiers-incursion-intl/index.html
Funny how Zelenskiy keeps tweeting that Ukrainian troops are massacring North Koreans left right and centre yet there is not a shred of evidence for this (in the most extensively photographed and documented war in history no less) and not one of the Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk that both the BBC and CNN have spoken to have ever actually seen one of them.
Hopefully Zelenskiy's new plan to offer cash rewards to any soldier who can actually find one of these 12,000 North Koreans that they're gunning down will pay dividends.
