"The Russian name on the North Korean military ID card..."Korean signatures found out"

Ukrainian media RBC reported that North Korean troops dispatched to Russia are hiding their identities using camouflage IDs with Russian names.

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces posted three photos on Facebook of what appeared to be military identification along with the bodies, saying they killed three North Korean soldiers on the Kursk front line on the 22nd local time.

The names of the soldiers killed are Ban Kook-jin, Lee Dae-hyuk and Cho Chul-ho, but "the identification in Russian is marked as Kim Khan Solat Albertovic, Donk Jan Suropovich and Beliek Aganak Kapulovic," it said.

He also said the identification cards were not photographed and stamped by the issuing authority, and that their birthplace was marked as the Republic of Tuba, former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's hometown.

In the ID signature column, there is a handwritten Korean name that appears to have used different types of writing tools.

The special operations force said this "reveals the real origin of the soldiers" and reaffirmed Russia's use of various means to hide its military presence and losses on the front lines.

RBC said it obtained interrogations of some Russian soldiers captured by Ukraine, and reported that they complained about North Korean soldiers.

"I lack theory, but I train a lot," a prisoner said of the North Korean military. "It's rude, and I can take a rifle from an ordinary soldier."

"They say they don't have a head on their own and they don't care where and how they go," he said, adding, "They're crazy."

Another prisoner stated that North Korean soldiers had been careless in handling weapons, shooting his fellow soldiers in the leg or shooting an instructor in the stomach.

"Honestly, the further away you get from North Korean soldiers, the quieter you get," he said, adding, "They shoot and shoot down anything that flies, regardless of whether it's a Ukrainian or Russian drone."