7 billion neighbors

Children facing the war in Ukraine

Audio 48:30

Aleksander, 41, says goodbye to his daughter Anna, 5, who is fleeing the war.

She is on a train bound for Lviv.

© AP / Emilio Morenatti

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Since February 24, 2022, the start of the Russian offensive and the war in Ukraine, more than 2.8 million people have fled their country.

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Among the refugees, half are children, some of whom are unaccompanied or have been separated from their families on the roads of exile.

In this context of war, children are particularly vulnerable.

The destruction of homes, water infrastructure, electricity, schools and even hospitals poses an immediate threat to the well-being and lives of the 7.5 million children still present in Ukraine.

Many have been injured and many more are suffering the trauma of violence and uprooting.

Hundreds of thousands are also out of school.

What emergency responses to bring on site?

How to organize to allow Ukrainian children and adolescents to find a certain form of normality far from home?  

With :

• Marion Libertucci

  , advocacy and expertise manager at

  Unicef ​​France

• Céline Schmitt

  , spokesperson in France

  for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

• Emeline Marchois

  , French-speaking Community Facilitator of the

  Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE)

• Tatiana Dehaye

  , president of the association

  Les enfants de l'Ukraine

  based in Normandy  

Musical programming:

► The Hardkiss

(Юлія Саніна) - Alyona Alyona

► Russians

- Sting

In addition : 

► On the UNICEF website:

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On the UNHCR website: 

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