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A soldier from North Korea has been captured by Ukrainian forces, Yonhap reports, citing South Korea’s intelligence service.
“Through real-time information sharing with a friendly nation’s intelligence agency, we can confirm the capture of a wounded North Korean soldier,” South Korean intelligence said in a statement.
It is unclear exactly where the soldier was captured, according to the AFP news agency.
According to estimates, Pyongyang has sent around 11,000 soldiers to support Russia.
In a post on X on December 23, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that over 3,000 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded in the fighting in the Kursk border region.