One in five boys and girls in Ukraine has lost a relative or a friend in the war

Are three years of war36 months of cruel killings that have ended with thousands of lives and snatched the childhood from the little ones. To the girls and boys killed in the attacks we must add those who have been orphans and those who suffer serious mental health problems. His dream is to be able to enjoy the simplest, like any child. Your reality, Try to survive the bombs.

A simple sunset on the mountain or enjoy a walk in the outdoor park with their parents, is the desire drawn with which Bohdana or Solomiia dream of only eight years.

One more day, and three years go, the threats of the Russian bombs have forced them to go down to the refuge of their school in Kyiv.

“I tell my sister:” Masha, They are flying missilesthey are falling bombs. “The tapo with blankets and pillows and we go to bed like that … and she tells me:” I am afraid, “says one of the elementary students.

“When I am at home alone and hear the anti -aircraft siren, I’m scared of it. That’s why I usually close the door of my room and get in bed with my toys, “says Solomiia Karanda, eight years old.

Because although the lesson when listening to the Anti -aircraft alarms They have learned, they are children undergoing the daily anxiety of war, a stress that endangers the mental health of more than one million minors in Ukraine.

According to UNICEF data, one in five children in Ukraine has lost a relative or a friend in the war. A Underbotted childhood For a war with shameful figures, such as that of the thousands of babies stolen by Moscow. A forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia that has earned an international arrest warrant to Vladimir Putin.

Source: Lasexta

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