The wounded fighters were taken to Kyiv for questioning, authorities said, where they could reveal details of Pyongyang’s cooperation with Moscow.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the soldiers were captured in the western Kursk region, where Ukraine has been fighting to hold on to territory it seized last summer.

Two North Korean soldiers have been captured by Ukraine during Kyiv's incursion into Russia's Kursk region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. The soldiers were given medical care for their injuries and are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv,