Regional Heart for Human Rights authorized skilled Kateryna Rashevska holds up {a photograph} of who she stated are kidnapped Ukrainian kids throughout a listening to of the U.S. congressional subcommittee in Washington, D.C., Wednesday. AFP-Yonhap
At the very least two Ukrainian kids have been discovered to have been kidnapped by Russian troops in Ukraine and forcibly transferred to a camp in North Korea, a Ukrainian on-line newspaper reported, citing a authorized skilled.
Kateryna Rashevska, a authorized skilled at Ukraine’s Regional Heart for Human Rights, made the assertion whereas testifying at a U.S. congressional subcommittee, in line with a report by the Kyiv Unbiased newspaper Wednesday (native time).
“12-year-old Misha from the occupied Donetsk area and 16-year-old Liza from occupied Simferopol have been despatched to Songdowon camp in North Korea, 9,000 kilometers from dwelling,” Rashevska was quoted as saying.
On the camp, the youngsters have been taught to destroy “Japanese militarists” and met Korean veterans who killed and wounded 9 American troopers in the course of the assault of the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo in 1968, in line with her.
It’s unclear which camp she was referring to, although it’s believed to be Songdowon Worldwide Kids’s Camp, in-built 1960 within the japanese coastal metropolis of Wonsan.
At the very least 19,546 Ukrainian kids have been forcibly taken from their properties and transported to Russia or Russian-controlled areas since February 2022, the newspaper stated, citing Ukraine’s nationwide “Kids of Conflict” database.
