Hundreds upon hundreds of children left behind all they knew as Vladimir Putin’s attack began in the dark of Thursday morning, rushing with the families to border countries willing to take them in as refugees.
They have been bundled out of their homes and into bomb shelters, forced to flee for the border as refugees, and wounded or killed by shelling and air strikes.
The images coming out of Ukraine in the wake of Russian’s invasion have all been harrowing—but none more so than those of the children exposed to the horrors of war. Below, a boy peeks from behind a curtain after fleeing from Ukraine to Romania, while a girl pushes a baby carriage toward the Shehyni border crossing to Poland.Many families who could not get out in time abandoned their homes—intact or wrecked—to seek safer environs. Here, a family joins hundreds of residents who fled a residential building hit by a Russian missile to shelter in the basement of a Kyiv school on Friday.
An ambulance rushed the child, still clad in her unicorn pajamas, to a hospital in the port city of Mariupol after she and her father were injured by shelling.Members of a medical team had tears in their eyes as they struggled but failed to save her. “Show this to Putin,” one doctor told the photographer, who was allowed into the hospital to chronicle their efforts. “The eyes of this child, and crying doctors.”
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