September 17th, 2025

Russian WARCRIMES against SCHOOL Mykolaiv city Ukraine

Russian WARCRIMES against SCHOOL Mykolaiv city Ukraine

​Children's everyday life in war:

• Children wake up to bombings or sirens.
• Homes, schools, and playgrounds are no longer safe havens.
• Human Rights Watch reports that over 3,790 schools and early childhood education institutions have been either damaged or destroyed since February 2022 (including schools, kindergartens, orphanages, etc.).
  
  
• Learning often happens remotely – if there is electricity, the necessary devices, and internet access. Remote learning is lonely; it doesn’t bring friends.
• Displacement, either within the country or to foreign lands; the child moves away from their community and often lives in isolation, without friends, and abroad there is the additional barrier of a language gap.
• Trauma: Many children experience insomnia, anxiety, depression, and stress. They have witnessed violence, loss, and experience fear.
  
  
• ​Learning is fragmented, and planning for the future is nearly impossible. • The war causes anxiety, sleep disorders, isolation, and post-traumatic stress. • Many children have lost their parents or been forced into refugee status.
• Children often lack food, warmth, clean water, or clean clothes. • Medicine and hygiene products are a luxury for many.
• Poverty has increased exponentially.
  
  

• When childhood is spent in war, there is no opportunity for a do-over.
• The threat of human trafficking: Under the cover of war, children are at risk of becoming victims of exploitation or human trafficking.
• Every day without safety, school, and play leaves a mark.
  
  
• We cannot outsource responsibility to the Ukrainians alone.
• The effects of the war do not end at national borders. The future of peace will be built on how we treat the most vulnerable – especially the children growing up in the midst of war.
• A Ukrainian child does not need pity. They need friends, support, care, activities, and hope.