The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on the 22nd, "The government has recently obtained intelligence that there are deaths among the Koreans participating in the Ukrainian war as a volunteers army through related countries and is checking whether they are true through various channels."
“We have four Koreans who have entered Ukraine without government permission and have been staying so far,” he said. The intelligence received by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is said to include the death of multiple Koreans and not the name of the dead.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is trying to contact the four unauthorized immigrants who have been identified by the government, or their families, and confirm their survival. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tried to contact them steadily before obtaining the death intelligence, but some people have not been able to reach them.
Lee Geun-soo, former captain, has also been reported to have been unable to reach him recently.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not rule out the possibility that there are unauthorized immigrants who the government has not grasped.
The government has recently persuaded families and others to leave the country as soon as possible as the situation worsens, with large-scale skirmishes in Donbas and the recent first civilian deaths in the western Leviu, which was considered relatively safe.
Meanwhile, with Russia and the Ukraine war on the horizon, casualties are snowballing. The Ukraine Foreign Ministry said there were about 20,000 international volunteers who volunteered for war to help Ukraine.