Jaw-dropping moment North Korean soldier goes sledging as he fights for Putin in Ukraine – only to be blown up by a mine

Jaw-dropping footage shows a North Korean soldier, who is fighting for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, getting blown up by a landmine while sledging. 

Dressed in camo – gun slung over his shoulder – the soldier appears to be enjoying a sledge ride. 

Meanwhile a Russian voice is heard saying: ‘The [North] Koreans are putting on a show…..****ing brilliant!’ 

But as he zooms down the hill he slams into a landmine and is violently thrown off the sledge, landing on his back. 

‘Oh ****!….,’ says the watching Russian soldier. 

It is unclear if he survived the intense blast. 

Under a mutual defense pact between the two countries, North Korea last year sent some 14,000 soldiers to fight alongside Russia in Kursk.

And more than 6,000 were killed, according to South Korean, Ukrainian and Western sources. 

Jaw-dropping footage shows a North Korean soldier, who is fighting for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine, getting blown up by a landmine while sledging

As he zooms down the hill he slams into a landmine and is violently thrown off the sledge, landing on his back

North Korea only confirmed that it had deployed soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in April, when state media said its soldiers had helped Russian forces ‘completely liberate’ the Kursk border region.

The country has also reportedly supplied millions of shells to Russia in a bid to tip the balance of the conflict.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has also provided ballistic missiles, 120 long-range artillery systems and 120 multiple-launch rocket systems.

It comes as Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremony for an army engineering unit that had returned home after carrying out duties in Russia, the North’s state-run television KRT reported on December 13. 

Pictured: Kim Jong Un praising the young personnel who were dispatched to overseas special military operations at the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League, at Kim Il Sung Stadium in Pyongyang

North Korea only confirmed that it had deployed soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict in April, when state media said its soldiers had helped Russian forces ‘completely liberate’ the Kursk border region

Pictured: Kim Jong Un presenting the certificate for the Order of Kim Jong Il to Mun Chol, the chairman of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League

Pictured: Kim Jong Un waving to attendees of a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Socialist Patriotic Youth League

In a speech carried by North Korea’s official news agency KCNA, Kim praised officers and soldiers of the 528th Regiment of Engineers of the Korean People’s Army (KPA) for ‘heroic’ conduct and ‘mass heroism’ in fulfilling orders issued by the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea during a 120-day overseas deployment.

Video footage released by North Korea showed uniformed soldiers disembarking from an aircraft, Kim hugging a soldier seated in a wheelchair, and soldiers and officials gathered to welcome the troops.

KCNA said the unit had been dispatched in early August and carried out combat and engineering tasks in the Kursk region of Russia during Moscow’s war with Ukraine.

Last month, Russia’s Defence Ministry said North Korean troops who helped Russia repel a major Ukrainian incursion into its western Kursk region are now playing an important role in clearing the area of mines.