A Ukrainian woman and her two children have been rescued from the closed al-Roj camp in northeastern Syria as part of a complex evacuation mission conducted by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following an order from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The woman was the last known Ukrainian citizen to remain in the Kurdish camp, where she was held for six years.

She and her children have safely returned to Ukraine, where they reunited with their family.

The al-Roj camp once held 89 Ukrainian citizens, most of them women — including some from Crimea — who had traveled to Syria in search of a better life but ended up in dire circumstances.

Many successfully evacuated women have expressed regret over their past decisions to leave Ukraine.

To date, Ukraine has brought home 14 women and 41 children from the al-Roj camp — all Ukrainian citizens who had requested evacuation.