• 01/18/2025

Zelenskyy awards soldiers of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces and Air Assault Forces who were first to capture North Korean troops – video

Pravda Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded orders to the Ukrainian military who were first to capture the soldiers from North Korea in Kursk Oblast (Russia).

Source: Zelenskyy on social media

Details: The 3rd grade orders – the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and the Order for Courage – were awarded to paratroopers of the 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade and soldiers of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces –  the Prince Izyaslav Mstyslavych Separate Special Operations Centre West.

 

Screeshot: video by Zelenskyy on social media

Background:

  • Ukrainian soldiers captured North Korean troops in Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
  • Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) released a video showing their operatives capturing and transporting a North Korean soldier, an event previously reported by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Another captured North Korean soldier was also shown in a video posted by Ukraine’s Air Assault Forces.
  • A fake military ID discovered on a captured North Korean soldier in Kursk Oblast was issued in the name of a real person from the Russian republic of Tyva (Tuva).
  • A North Korean soldier captured by Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces in Kursk Oblast confirmed that he had fake Russian documents.

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