With faces and North Korean troops, Ukrainian soldiers say the war must end
While the soldiers fighting for Ukraine are trying to preserve the hundreds of square kilometers in Kursk region of Russia, some describe the struggle of Russian subdivisions and exhaustion and declining Ukrainian forces with the intensified tactics of North Korea.
“Frankly, I don't think we will be able to keep it for a long time,” said Chapu, a foreign fighter, who spoke with CBC in the Sumi region of Ukraine about 15 km away from Russia.
“What I hope is that they just freeze the lines for six months. Give time to politicians try and negotiate. “
Chbin, as the other soldiers who spoke with CBC News, are recognized only with his call sign in accordance with Ukrainian military rules.
He and the other members of his attack depict describe the situation along the Kursk's front, where there are not enough troops or weapons to face the Russian military, who are enhanced by thousands of weapons of North Korean.
When in August 2024, Ukraine attracted the area with an unexpected invasion of the military and the Ukrainian public, who were tired of seeing that Russia continues to crow down the lands in the southeastern country.
However, in recent months, Ukraine is losing its occupied territory.
Chbin who is fighting in Ukraine 2022 says that since the army does not have troops, mobilized men who do not have experiences trying to fill the gaps on the front lines, peace talks cannot come soon.
Kursk can be a subject of bargaining
The last time CHAPI describes that it was so frightened during the struggle Baki that lasted about a year as Russia sent a wave to channel Wagner mercenaries fighters and convicts in a fight.
He says that this time the difference is that North Koreans are much better prepared, and the war of the drones has developed so fast that the air threat is almost permanent.
Ukrainian officials say they have taken the Kursk area to create a buffer zone, but now. US President Donald Trump Pushing to stop the war, there are assumptions that Kursk is also a bargaining tool that can be used in any future negotiations.
But only if Ukraine behaves.
Chbin says many of the soldiers on the front line are not the former caliber. Instead of voluntarily fighting, they were forced by conscription.
“Many of those guys don't want to be there. They just want to survive the war. “
The soldiers fighting for the Ukrainian, Chapi and Google are now fighting with the North Korean forces in the war against Russia. They describe North Koreans as
“We're all tired,” says Zoder
The Ukrainian government reduced S. last April mobilization age from 27 to 25. However, US officials urged Ukraine to reduce what the government had resisted so far, claiming that Ukraine's main problem is not the lack of weapons.
The 26-year-old soldier who went to Google's call and fought next to Chabi, he had just married and worked as a sales manager when he was drafted nine months ago.
“I want to go back to Civil Life quickly,” he said to CBC News.
“We are all tired, we want peace.”
In December, the President of Ukraine stated that more than 42,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the beginning of the large-scale invasion, hundreds of thousands were injured.
Before the Government claims that the Ukrainian army consists of 800,000, the Prosecutor General's Office stated that more than 100000 The soldiers are accused of the Laws on the Earth's description, from the beginning of the war in February 2022.
The Ukrainian media reported that an investigation into the 155th mechanized brigade was launched in connection with the accusations that 1,700 left the unit before the start of March.
Insufficient preparation, the soldier reports
At the end of last year, Ukraine awarded its ranks amnesty which will allow AWOL soldiers to avoid punishment if their units return.
Vaudio, another foreign volunteer who works as a doctor and lived in Kursk, says they are scattered on the front, there are “good brigades, mediocre brigades.”
He said that while Ukraine tries to provide new soldiers to the basic level of preparation, he believes that it is often inadequate and equal to the “box test” exercise.
He described that he was present at the recent course where the instructor begins every lesson, saying the troops simply so that there are no drones in the sky, according to him, according to him.
“Of course, I can pretend to fight on the moon or I sit unicorn if you want. But that's not the war we fight, “he said.
“So why worry even exercise?”
Rehabilitation of North Korea
Experts believe that the number of victims of the Russian military is significantly more than Ukraine. Independent Russian journalists who followed the victims and wounded are estimated at about 150 thousand victims.
But Russia has a much larger population, and now uses the troops imported from North Korea.
The soldiers who fought for Ukraine said that they were amazed at how small the North Koreans they saw in the battlefield compared to the Russians, but they say they are obviously skilled and well-known. He said that their movements are more aggressive, and the shots are more accurate.
Chbghi says they are using more men to start attacks, saying that it was witnessed that a group was thrown on behind them.
“I don't know what he was shouting, but I can say that it was not a matter of” good, now returned, “he said.
“He was like sending them, sending them all the time. And this after North Koreans gave victims. “
The soldiers who are fighting for Ukraine, which pass by calls, and Google see the deterioration of the situation and want the fight to stop.
Unlike the Russians, Google's soldier said that North Koreans take back all their dead. There are some information that as reaches 1,000 They were killed in Kursk.
Meanwhile, Ukraine has taken prisoner two men Google says that North Koreans, with whom it is now in Kiev, refuse to become a prisoner of war.
He said that he had personally witnessed that some instead of being taken prisoner, they chose them to blow up their grenades.
Dreams of going home
Google, who talked to CBC, dreams of making a family and finally leave the first line, but he waits for more to listen to Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelopeki.
Asked what kind of peace agreement he supported, he is not sure, but he says that peacekeepers of other countries may be required to patrol the ceasefire and forced the ceasefire.
If it is part of a hypothetical deal, Zelenky said that at least 200,000 soldiers would be needed.
Yari, a 25-year-old soldier, another soldier, who used to be MMA fighters, says that peace agreement can only be operated in one way. .
“If they get 20 percent of our territory, it's no peace,” he said.
“After three or four years, they will break again.”
