US EditionRussia Sent Abducted Ukrainian Kids to North Korea, Rights Expert Says
Testimony reveals Russia moved abducted Ukrainian children nearly 9,000 km to North Korea as part of a program erasing Ukrainian identity and integrating children into Russia.
- New testimony to the U.S. Senate revealed Russia transferred abducted Ukrainian children to the Songdowon camp, North Korea, opening a U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Russia’s mass abductions.
- Ukraine’s national Children of War database records at least 19,546 abducted children, and the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified at least 210 receiving facilities inside Russia and Russian-held territory.
- Some abducted children were adopted by Russian families, while others faced militarization programs and re-education camps inside Russian-held areas, testimony said.
- Russia sought to capitalise on the reunification event involving seven children , linking Maria Lvova-Belova’s appearance despite her ICC arrest warrant while Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa urged Russia to return all kidnapped children before peace talks.
- Analysts warn the transfers aim to erase Ukrainian identity, with only 1,859 children returned so far, said Kristina Hook and Daria Herasymchuk, highlighting a generational trauma risk.
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The Russian forces kidnapped at least two Ukrainian children and transferred them to a camp in North Korea, according to testimony from a subcommission to the U.S. Congress.
Ukraine alleges that abducted children in the occupied areas were reportedly transferred by Russia to "rehabilitation" camps in North Korea, where they would be subjected to indoctrination and militarization
Russia Sent Ukrainian Children to North Korea ‘Re-Education’ Camps, Kyiv Says
Russia has acknowledged moving some children since launching its offensive, but says it did so for their own safety and is trying to reunite them with their families – an assertion Ukraine rejects.
Ukraine: 'Russia Sent Abducted Children to North Korea for “Re-Education”'
Russia has sent some of the thousands of Ukrainian children it abducted from occupied territory to North Korea for “re-education,” according to Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets on Thursday, December 4th. Citing testimony published by a Kyiv-based human rights group, Lubinets said there is a network of 165 “camps” where Russia is attempting to re-educate children—located in occupied Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and North Korea. Previ…
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n1info.rsToday, Ukrainian authorities accused Russia of sending Ukrainian children who were "kidnapped" by Moscow from territories occupied by the Russian army to "re-education" camps in North Korea.
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