North Korea, the latest stage in the Russian indoctrination of Ukrainian children

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-14/north-korea-the-latest-stage-in-the-russian-indoctrination-of-ukrainian-children.html

North Korea, the latest stage in the Russian indoctrination of Ukrainian children

A human rights organization documents the journey of two minors living in occupied Ukraine to a North Korean camp

ÓSCAR GUTIÉRREZ
Madrid - DEC 13, 2025 - 23:00 EST

Their names are Yelizaveta and Mykhailo. She was born 16 years ago in Simferopol (Crimea); he, 12 years ago in Makiivka (Donetsk). Both were born in a free Ukraine, but have lived for more than a decade in territory occupied by the Russian army. Last week, Ukrainian lawyer and international law expert Katerina Rashevska showed their photos before the United States Senate. She denounced that the organization she works for in Kyiv, the Regional Center for Human Rights (RCHR), has documented 165 camps where Ukrainian children are subjected to a process of Russification. The case of Yelizaveta and Mykhailo is particularly noteworthy. Moscow temporarily sent the two children to the Songdowon camp in North Korea. They are the first identified Ukrainian minors to travel to the Kremlin’s major Asian ally as part of its campaign of child indoctrination.

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