"The two Ukrainian children, reportedly sent to a camp for the offspring of North Korean elite, are seen by some analysts as pawns in the propaganda war being waged by Moscow and Pyongyang, while the rights activist says the children are the victims of war crimes. The transfer of the children was revealed in testimony to a US congressional subcommittee on December 3 by Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert at Ukraine's Regional Center for Human Rights (RCHR)."
"The duo identified as Misha, 12, from the Russian-occupied Donetsk region of Ukraine, and 16-year-old Liza from the Crimean capital, Simferopol are among the more than 19,500 Ukrainian children who Kyiv says were abducted from Russia-controlled areas of Ukraine. The vast majority of the 165 camps for children documented by the RCHR are in Russia and Belarus, but it appears that Moscow and Pyongyang are looking to deepen the alliance that has emerged since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022."
"Rashevska told DW that the two children that stayed at the Songdowon International Children's Camp, near North Korea's eastern port city of Wonsan, were later returned to Russian-occupied Ukraine. The Songdowon camp 'is a bit like a Boy Scout camp, but with the Kim family as the focus,' says Dan PinkstonImage: DW/P.Depont "Why does it matter?" she asked. "Because in this case, Russia is essentially exploiting our Ukrainian children for its propaganda. They present them as some kind of 'Russian ambassadors' of child and youth diplomacy.""
Two Ukrainian children, Misha, 12, and Liza, 16, were reportedly taken from Russian-occupied Donetsk and Simferopol to Songdowon International Children's Camp in North Korea and later returned to Russian-occupied Ukraine. Kyiv counts them among more than 19,500 Ukrainian children allegedly abducted from Russia-controlled areas. RCHR documented 165 camps, mostly in Russia and Belarus. Analysts interpret the transfers as part of a propaganda campaign and alliance-building between Moscow and Pyongyang, which have exchanged munitions, troops, food, fuel and military technology since Russia's 2022 invasion. A rights campaigner labeled the transfers war crimes and condemned exploiting minors for propaganda.
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