THIS is the moment Putin’s desperate North Korean troops chuck pensioners into the snow to save themselves from Ukraine’s drones.

The revealing footage from Kursk shows a North Korean solider – who is meant to be defending the Russian people – ignore that and putting elderly person in danger instead.

Ukraine is currently staging an advance in the Kursk region which it first partially occupied in August last year, pushing forward almost two miles.

The show of weakness comes as Volodymyr Zelensky claims that almost 4,000 out of around 11,000 Kim Jong Un soldiers sent to Russia have been killed or wounded while fighting for Vladimir Putin.

In the clip, two helpless Russian residents in the village of  Makhnovka stand outside their door as a solider stands in the doorway.

The soldier is possibly negotiating their temporary shelter from the people he is supposed to be sheltering from harm.

The members of the public who has been forced out into the street only has a red coat to protect them from the ongoing warfare and chaos unfolding outside their front door.

The Telegram channel InformNapalm said: “North Korean soldiers drove local residents (Russians) out of their houses to hide [there].

“Local elderly people were left in the cold, and their homes became shelters for North Korean soldiers.”

A Ukrainian military source told the channel: “We know for sure that these were Koreans, not Russians, not only by their characteristic external features, but also by other intelligence data.

“On the streams that we watched, it was clearly visible that they were Koreans, we also know that they operated in that area and suffered significant losses.

“Perhaps, in order to avoid death from drones, they decided to take cover with the local population and hide in their houses, and drive the elderly people into the cold.”

Zelensky has suggested 3,800 North Korean soldiers have been killed or maimed in the war.

Meanwhile, Radio Free Asia has reported that North Korean families losing their men in the war are forced by Jim’s dictatorship to sign nondisclosure agreements barring them from talking about their losses.

Death certificates do not show how or where their loved ones were killed, it is reported.

“On December 18, my mother and I received a message that the Kaechong City Party Committee was inviting us to participate in a provincial-level party event,” said a source in South Pyongan Province, North Korea.

“When we arrived in Pyongsong, we received a certificate of death in battle for my younger brother, who was serving in the special operations forces.”

NORTH KOREANS EXECUTE THEIR OWN

North Korean soldiers are also brutally “executing” their wounded comrades to stop them being captured by Ukraine, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Kyiv president claimed his forces had captured “several” of dictator Kim Jong-Un‘s fighters – but they couldn’t be resuscitated and died.

North Korean corpses inspected by Ukrainians have even been recovered with no radios or other forms of communication.

And what’s more there have been no radio intercepts involving North Korean troops.

Officer Telegram channel from Ukraine said: “They don’t even communicate with each other during assaults, and the Russians also don’t consider it advisable [for North Koreans] to communicate with commanders and drone operators, because no one will understand them anyway.”

Zelensky said North Korea had suffered “many losses”, having previously put this figure at 3,000-plus dead and wounded.

The Ukrainian president said: “We can see that the Russian military and the North Korean enforcers have no interest in the survival of these Koreans at all.

“Everything is arranged in a way that makes it impossible for us to capture the Koreans as prisoners.

“Their own people are executing them, there are such cases.

“And the Russians send them into assaults with minimal protection.

“Today we received reports on several soldiers from North Korea, our warriors managed to capture them.

“But they were seriously wounded and could not be resuscitated.”