NORTH Korean soldiers are brutally “executing” their wounded comrades to stop them being captured by Ukraine, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. The Kyiv president claimed his forces had captured

North Korea demonstrated this year that it could produce ballistic missiles and supply them to Russia for use against Ukraine in a matter of months.

Russia is deploying “human waves” of North Korean soldiers, the U.S. said, and one soldier captured by Ukraine died of his injuries. Others died by suicide.