Zelenskiy says he’s ready to exchange North Korean soldiers for Ukrainians held in Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/zelenskiy-says-ready-hand-over-n-korean-soldiers-exchange-ukrainians-captive-2025-01-12/

23 comments
  1. Too bad neither Putin nor Kim give a shit about their people and likely have zero interest in any sort of exchange.

  2. Looks like they got all of the info out of them that they need.

  3. If these people are sent back they might be executed, or even worse, have to live in North Korea.

  4. I have a feeling the moment those NK soliders left, NK counted them among the dead.

  5. I’m guessing he has treated them well and expect them to tell the rest of the NK soldiers. As to cause them to want to abandon the Russians.

  6. The North Koreans have already issued orders that their soldiers should kill themselves before capture, so I wouldn’t be too keen on going back.

  7. Yeah these guys have seen the outside world they are fucking dead if they get sent back. That goes for everyone of them who got on the trains to leave. Not one of them will return home.

  8. I highly doubt that’s gonna work. Kim doesn’t give a shit about his men and Putin cares even less

  9. Zelenskiy trying to trade a purple monopoly property prisoners for orange property prisoners. Lol good luck

  10. North Koreans will end up getting killed anyways upon return

  11. They will likely be treated very badly if they ever return to N Korea. Best to keep them as POWs, they will get better treatment.

  12. And if it is possible to send the North Korean soldiers back, as “vegetables”, as a sign of respect for all the Ukrainian soldiers killed.

  13. highly doubt this is any leverage to get any urkrainians back.

    a solider caught is a soldier dead to NK

  14. I’m pretty sure NK doesn’t want them back. Either for being captured or by simply being out of the sphere of influence thus making them “tainted” so to speak.

  15. In order to make a trade, both parties need to have what each other wants.

    This will go as well as one can expect over someone who would even send their citizens to war in the first place. 

    Cruel as it might sound, I believe KJU sees the loss of NK life as a blessing. More food for him. 

  16. I assumed they were disposable. “Single Use”

  17. Putin will offer 1 Ukrainian life for 69 North Korean lives. But to get 1 Russian life back, he’s willing to give 420 North Korean lives.

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