Notes and weapons recovered from the battlefield are helping Kyiv to better understand the thousands of troops from East Asia fighting on Russia’s side.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, centre, meets soldiers who took part in training in North Korea. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP
“Resistance is futile.” “Surrender.” “You’re all surrounded.”
The phrases, printed in Korean with rough Russian transliterations on a weathered piece of paper Ukrainian troops said they took off a dead North Korean soldier this month, offer a remarkable insight into how Russia appears to have prepared their new allies to take Ukrainian prisoners during their assaults on the front lines.
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