In Photos: Ukrainian Children Live and Play Amid War
While millions of Ukrainian children have fled their homes since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, more than 3 million children remain in the country as of July 26, according to UNICEF.
As Russia's war against Ukraine drags on, children continue to live in wartime conditions, surrounded by bombed buildings, destroyed cars and anti-tank equipment.
As Russia's war against Ukraine drags on, children continue to live in wartime conditions, surrounded by bombed buildings, destroyed cars and anti-tank equipment.
Children play at a cemetery of cars shot by Russian troops, some painted by local artists, in Irpin.
Sergei Supinsky / AFP
Children jump on a trampoline against the backdrop of destroyed buildings in Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv.
Ionut Iordachescu / AFP
Ukrainian children play territorial defense fighters at a fake "checkpoint" in the village of Stoyanka, Kyiv region.
Sergei Chuzhakov / AFP
Children inspect a room damaged by shelling in the town of Borodianka, near Kyiv.
Sergei Chuzhakov / AFP
A boy rides his scooter past the destroyed city hall building in Okhtyrka, Sumy region.
Genya Savilov / AFP
A woman and her daughter walk past a residential building destroyed by shelling in Irpin, near Kyiv.
Sergei Chuzhakov / AFP
Kira, a girl from Toretsk, Bakhmutsky district, Donetsk region, on an evacuation train to Dnipro.
Nariman El-Mofty / AP / TASS
A young girl walks by a crater in front of a damaged appartment building after a strike in the city of Sloviansk at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas.
Aris Messinis / AFP
A girl pets a dog near a residential building partially destroyed by shelling in the town of Irpin.
Aris Messinis / AFP
Children hold used anti-tank and anti-aircraft military equipment such as Javelin, NLAW, Stinger and others used by the Ukrainian military at an outdoor exhibition in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Yuriy Dyachyshyn / AFP
