The Kremlin said Monday that it might not comment on Kyivs claim that it caught North Korean soldiers combating alongside the Russian military, coming a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated he was prepared to exchange them for Ukrainian POWs.Moscow has neither rejected nor verified reports that countless North Korean soldiers were sent to the southwestern Kursk region to help Russia combat a Ukrainian incursion.
We can not comment [on this declaration] in any way, we do not know what holds true there, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told press reporters when asked to discuss Zelenskys offer to switch the North Korean soldiers for Ukrainian POWs.
We continue to discuss the possibility of exchanges.
We are interested in this, Peskov added.
But the life of each of our military prisoners is essential to us.
This work will continue.
Ukrainian authorities over the weekend released videos of what they stated were 2 North Korean soldiers being questioned after their capture.
South Korean intelligence authorities later on validated the soldiers capture.Souel stated previously on Monday that around 300 North Korean troops have actually been eliminated and some 2,700 others injured while fighting for Russia in its war against Ukraine.