UKRAINIAN special forces managed to hold off North Korean troops for eight hours while hugely outnumbered, heartstopping new footage shows. Troops from the Separate Special Operations Center

After an intense battle with Russian forces this week, Ukrainian special forces were scouring dead bodies from the snowy western terrain of the Kursk region, where they discovered corpses of over a dozen dead North Korean enemy troops.

After a battle in Russia's snowy western region of Kursk this week, Ukrainian special forces scoured the bodies of more than a dozen slain North Korean enemy soldiers. Among them, they found one still alive.

North Korean troops have been deployed to bolster Russian forces in the Kursk border region with Ukraine, where they are gaining battlefield experience despite initial heavy losses.

South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) informed lawmakers on Monday that two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces while fighting alongside Russian troops in the Kursk border region have not expressed a desire to seek asylum in South Korea.

Ukraine's security service released footage purportedly showing two North Korean soldiers following their capture in Russia's Kursk region. (Credit: Security Service of Ukraine)

In a statement posted on X, Zelenskyy said he had instructed Ukraine's security service to allow journalists access to the captured soldiers.