Three years on: The impact of war on Ukraine's children

Three years on: The impact of war on Ukraine's children

On the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, an expert has spoken to us from Kyiv about the impact of the war on children. In the spring of last year, UNICEF reported that nearly 2,000 children had been killed or injured in the conflict. That figure does not take into account those who have lost family members or friends. Mykola Kuleba, founder of the NGO Save Ukraine and a former Ukrainian presidential commissioner for c…

As Russia’s war reaches milestone, Ukrainians count their personal losses

Ukrainian survivors remember their many tragedies three years after Russia’s invasion began.

Ukraine war in numbers: Full toll of Russia’s invasion three years on

Monday marks three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, 2022. Alicja Hagopian and Tom Watling report on the many costs of Putin’s war

Human toll of Russia's war in Ukraine explained in graphics

Three years on, Russia's war in Ukraine has reduced infrastructure to rubble and displaced millions. Though estimates of the number of people killed in the invasion vary, the human tragedy is indisputable.

Three years on: Russia’s War on Ukraine’s Forcibly Displaced Children - The Foreign Policy Centre

Every war is a war against children. However, in its war in Ukraine, the Russian Government has specifically targeted children as a tool to disrupt Ukrainian communities, and secure long-term dominance in the region – pursuing a cruel and systematic policy of forcibly separating tens of thousands of Ukrainian children from their families and deporting them to Russia or Belarus.[1]   As of 19 February 2025, Children of War reports that 19,546 chi…

The Washington Post · Siobhán O'Grady, Kostiantyn Khudov, Anastacia Galouchka and Ed Ram When the war began they were innocent children—happily oblivious to missiles, drones, Russian occupation. Now these children are coming of age in a country where, three years after the outbreak of conflict, being a man often means wielding arms. The Russian invasion has subjected Ukrainian society to unimaginable pressures. Ukrainian women have borne the bru…