SEOUL, Jan 12, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) said Sunday it had confirmed that Ukraine captured two wounded North Korean soldiers this week in Russia's Kursk region, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said they were being questioned.

"The NIS, through real-time cooperation with Ukraine's intelligence agency (SBU), has identified battlefield situations, including the capture of North Korean soldiers, and confirmed that the Ukrainian military captured two North Korean soldiers on January 9 in the Kursk battlefield in Russia," the NIS said in a statement.