Kremlin refuses to comment on Zelenskyy’s statement about North Korean troops
Pravda Ukraine
The Kremlin is not commenting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s 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 state-owned 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 Russia’s Kursk Oblast.
- Special Operations Forces released footage of the capture and evacuation of one North Korean soldier from Russia. The other was shown by Ukraine’s 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 Russia’s Tuva Republic.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shared the first video of the interrogation of North Korean soldiers captured in Russia’s 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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