Ukraine

Dispatch from Ukraine: ‘It's like there are no children here; this war has made them all grow up’

On the anniversary of the Russian invasion, Kyiv-based Ukrainian journalist Oleksander Proshuta looks back on the last 12 months – a period during which childhood ended for all the nation’s children – and, despite everything, remains hopeful that the war will end this year

A child poses for a photo with a toy Kalashnikov rifle while he visits destroyed cars brought by volunteers from the front line near Bakhmut to show the consequences of the war. Picutre: Mykola Tys/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images