Russia's invasion of Ukraine a year ago has disrupted the schooling and the lives of more than five million young people, risking an entire generation, UNICEF said last month.
A child takes a timeout at a shelter — one of many — in Dnipro, Ukraine.
Under a weak, grey sky, parents with strollers, the elderly and a few couples went about their lives, the happy cries of children mingling with the nearby deep rumble and thump of artillery rounds. Lairisa, left, and her granddaughter, Dariya, in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine. 'There are explosions every night,' Lairisa says. 'In our building, we do not have windows in the hallway.'
Lairisa's granddaughter is a good student, a creative soul who is fond of music and the arts, she added, hence the music lessons.A child's drawing that seems inspired by the horror of war in Ukraine. Children are, on an almost daily basis, being traumatized by the capricious violence. Some are being wounded and killed. The Ukrainian government estimated last week that the war — which began when Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022 — had taken the lives of 1,388 children.There are no artillery exchanges taking place outside of evacuation shelters in Dnipro, 240 kilometres west of Kostyantynivka.
Sophia, 12, in the middle, seen here with two other children at the shelter in Dnipro. Sophia was evacuated to the shelter with her parents from the eastern town of Severodonetsk. She says what frightens her the most are the constant air raids. 'During those times, I think about how not to die here,' she says.
Elsewhere in the shelter, Volodymyr Krylov, a children's boxing coach from Kremmina, talks with his son, Artem, about the future. He proudly holds his phone showing a photo of Artem at a junior boxing tournament in Kyiv, taken last fall. Mariia Ionova, a European Solidarity Party MP in the Ukrainian parliament, has a 15-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son. She carries a video of her son, perched in a booster seat in the car, singing a popular Ukrainian victory song, until he insists she turn off the camera.
"He's asking why, why, why are they sending the police rockets? — his naming for this. Why are they killing people? Why? Why?" Ionova said. "So, this question is still on because he cannot understand why."What she is seemingly worried about is that the longer the war goes on, the more he gets used to it. Ionova said she's seen a change in her son over the last year and how he has become used to air raids.
Buildings are destroyed in the town of Siversk, in Ukraine's Donetsk region, following an attack by Russia, on Feb. 20. A child psychologist says she has watched as a mental crisis has spread throughout Ukraine following last year's invasion.
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