Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Beijing to be able to influence North Korea. The appeal comes on the day when the president responded to the need for China to act to prevent the Ukraine conflict from escalating on Thursday.
“The Korean nation should not lose its people in the battles in Europe. And this can be influenced, particularly by Korea’s neighbors, especially China.
If China really pursues the war in Ukraine not to escalate, it should exert pressure on Pyongyang,” he added in an evening address on X, just after a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief to analyze current events on the front line.
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Mister President stated, “The most intense is the Donetsk area, as indeed, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Kharkiv oblasts,” at the end.
He also noted worrying news coming from North Korea regarding its participation in fighting within the Russian forces in Kursk Oblast, Russia.
“Many losses. A large amount. And we see here that the Russian military and the North Korean enforcers do not care at all about the survival of these Koreans. Everything is arranged in such a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans – their own people are executing them; there are such cases.”
Zelenskyy stated that Ukrainian troops had recently taken over several injured North Korean soldiers who were later found dead. “This is one of the manifestations of the madness dictatorships are capable of,” he added.