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Children look out from a carriage window as a train leaves Lviv, western Ukraine, in route to the town of Uzhhorod near the border with Slovakia, on March 3, 2022. At least 22,000 children in Ukraine have been killed, injured or kidnapped in Russia's invasion, nonprofit Ukraine Children's Action Project has said. Image: DANIEL LEAL/GETTY IMAGES
More than 22,000 children in Ukraine have been injured, killed, or kidnapped since the start of Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion, according to a nonprofit group working in the country. The findings by the Ukraine Children's Action Project (UCAP) outlining the impact of the war on the country's future generation come as the Financial Times reported how children who were abducted and taken to Russia in the early months of the war have been put up for adoption by authorities there.
On May 13, United Nations agency UNICEF said at least 1,993 children had been killed or injured since the beginning of the full-scale war, although it noted the tally "is likely to be higher."
"Ukraine's children are being killed and injured at an alarming rate, and psychological trauma and educational disruption are rampant," Irwin Redlener, an American pediatrician and public health activist who co-founded UCAP, told Newsweek.
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