North Korean soldiers are helping Russia in the war against Ukraine. Evidence suggests they resort to self-detonation and suicide to avoid being captured. Ukrainian forces found a North Korean soldier detonate a grenade on himself.

After a battle in Russia's snowy western region of Kursk this week, Ukrainian special forces scoured the bodies of more than a dozen slain North Korean enemy soldiers. Among them, they found one still alive.

Ukraine’s president released a video of the two soldiers being interrogated, revealing they knew little about the war they were sent to fight in.