The report highlights that North Korean soldiers have developed unique battlefield tactics, such as using a soldier as bait to shoot down drones or detonating grenades, holding it under the neck with one hand on the pin when the Ukrainian military approaches to avoid capture when severely wounded.

North Korea has not responded to reports of its troops captured or killed by Ukraine forces. It has never publicised the deployment or large shipments of North Korean artillery shells and other weapons sent to Russia to help its war against Ukraine, although they marked the country’s first intervention in a major armed conflict overseas in decades.

Ukraine President Zelenskyy has alleged that North Korea is supporting Ukraine in the ongoing war; Ukraine has also captured two North Korean soldiers.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to return them to North Korea should its leader, Kim Jong Un, arrange for Ukrainian soldiers to be released.

KYIV: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday (Jan 12) that Kyiv is ready to hand over North Korean soldiers to their leader Kim Jong Un if he can organise their exchange for Ukrain

"I didn't even know who we were fighting against," the captured soldier from Pyongyang told Ukraine's Security Service.

Ukrainian forces detailed the capture of a North Korean soldier on the western Kursk front in Russia on Tuesday.

Soldiers of the 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine told the details of how they captured a North Korean soldier in the Kursk region. The North Korean soldier was wounded and tried to commit suicide,

Videos of captured North Korean troops posted online by Ukrainian President Zelensky show them admitting that they thought they were being sent on an exercise.

Reports suggest that North Korean soldiers are ordered to avoid capture at all costs, even resorting to suicide rather than falling into enemy hands. Ukrainian military sources in