Ukrainian squaddies describe the North Korean squaddies as being very a ways from green cannon fodder.
“They’re younger, motivated, bodily are compatible, courageous, and excellent at the usage of small hands. They’re additionally disciplined. They’ve the whole lot you want for a excellent infantryman,” Chepurnyi mentioned.
Yuriy Bondar, a Ukrainian soldier with the eightieth separate airborne attack brigade, mentioned North Korean squaddies have extraordinarily excellent bodily coaching and feature strong morale.
“The enemy does no longer give up. They do away with themselves in keeping with the similar scheme, a grenade close to the top, and cross. Those that stay at the battlefield are doused with flammable liquid and burned,” Bondar mentioned in a publish on Fb on Sunday.
Bondar additionally showed that the North Koreans possess an especially prime stage of mastery of small hands, effectively capturing down “a shocking quantity” of Ukrainian drones.
“They show mental resilience. Consider, one runs and draws consideration and the opposite from an ambush shoots down a drone with aimed hearth,” Bondar mentioned, claiming that underestimation of the enemy will all the time result in a defeat.
“As one commander mentioned, in comparison to the warriors of the DPRK, Wagner mercenaries circa 2022 are simply kids. And I consider him,” Bondar mentioned.
