Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The Russian Full-Scale Invasion and Its Effect on the Children of UkraineThe Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and the following blunt disregard for human rights have triggered massive support for Ukraine all over the free world.Like children in other conflicts, the children of Ukraine suffer in multiple ways with more than 660 dead and 1,700 injured.Today, one million children lack access to in-person schooling.Classrooms and playgrounds have been replaced by makeshift schools underground.Nine out of ten of the 6.3 million refugees outside Ukraine and the 3.6 million displaced refugees within Ukraine are women and children.Approximately 1.7 million children do not have access to safe drinking water and 3.4 million to centralised sanitation.At least 20,000 children have been kidnapped (displaced by force) to Russia or Russian-occupied territories for which international arrest warrants have been issued for Russian President Putin and the Children's Rights Commissioner Lvova-Bleova.The Russian targeting of civilian infrastructure and the upcoming winter cold will obviously be especially hard on the children.
Source: Acta Paediatrica
DOI: 10.1111/apa.70087
Authors: Zhovnir Volodymyr, Svante Norgren
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,480
OpenAlex ID: W4409192810