How war is shaping a generation of children in Ukraine

From Reuters.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, Varvara Tupkalenko’s two sons played at home with miniature cars, like many boys their age.

Today, plastic guns are the favored toys in their living room in the village of Kalynove, near the Russian border in the northeastern Kharkiv region.

Europe’s largest land conflict since the Second World War is reshaping the fabric of ravaged Ukrainian frontier communities like Kalynove and leaving unseen, as well as visible, injuries on their youngest.

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