Kiev 1 November 2024. The Ukranian army eliminated a troop concentration of newly arrived North Koreans on the battlefield.
About 40 soldiers were killed in an exchange with only one survivor. A heavily bandages survivor spoke in North Korean recorded on social media.
Despite anti-Ukranian western media the captured North Korean commented on the success of the Ukranians defeating the Russian army on the battlefield.
The freshly arrived North Koreans planned to be embedded woth Russian troops faced the brunt of Ukranian artillery and mortar fire killing forty.
The Ukranian president Zelensky commented that North Koreans will be killed should the North Koreans will take up arms against the Ukranians.
NATO and EU command struggled with finding a response. Experts argue the deployment of North Koreans is the regime attempt to get combat experience.