Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces were forcefully transferred to North Korea, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.

Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert at Ukraine's Regional Center for Human Rights, told a US congressional subcommittee on the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russian forces that Kyiv registered at least two cases of children from Eastern Ukraine deported by Moscow to North Korea.

Rashevska said during the hearing that “12-year-old Misha from the occupied Donetsk region and 16-year-old Liza from occupied Simferopol (in Crimea) were sent to Songdowon camp in North Korea, 9,000 km from home.”

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