Published TUESDAY December 3, 2024: 'Youthful DREAMS DEFERRED' by ZUMA Press award winning photographer in Ukraine Svet Jacqueline: 'Every war is a war against children' said Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the 'Save the Children' organization, 100 years ago just at the end of World War One. Today an average of at least 16 children are killed or injured in Ukraine every week, stated UNICEF. As the war enters its third year, Ukrainian youth continue to bear the greatest burden. Over 659 children have lost their lives and hundreds more have been forcibly relocated to occupied territories to suppress their heritage and Ukrainian identities. These images showcase what has become their reality and encapsulate the complex stories of survival and long-lost childhoods Russia continues to destroy. Welcome to 'Youthful DREAMS DEFERRED'
© zReportage.com Issue #966 Story of the Week: Published TUESDAY December 3, 2024: 'Youthful DREAMS DEFERRED' by ZUMA Press award winning photographer in Ukraine Svet Jacqueline: 'Every war is a war against children' said Eglantyne Jebb, founder of the 'Save the Children' organization, 100 years ago just at the end of World War One. Today an average of at least 16 children are killed or injured in Ukraine every week, stated UNICEF. As the war enters its third year, Ukrainian youth continue to bear the greatest burden. Over 659 children have lost their lives and hundreds more have been forcibly relocated to occupied territories to suppress their heritage and Ukrainian identities. These images showcase what has become their reality and encapsulate the complex stories of survival and long-lost childhoods Russia continues to destroy. Welcome to 'Youthful DREAMS DEFERRED'
A young boy looks out the bus window on a cloudy day while leaving the Kharkiv metro station after seeking shelter there for three months following the Russian invasion. Over a year since the escalation of the war in Ukraine, a generation of children has experienced 12 months of violence, fear, loss and tragedy.
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A child plays outside a school turned into a refugee center in Ivano-Frankivsk. Tires are piled infront of windows for protection in the event of rocket attacks.
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A boy says goodbye to his father through the window as the train pulls away from the Lviv-Holovnyl train station, unsure when they will see each other again. The father walked out of the train station crying soon after.
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A young boy looks out the carriage window on a train leaving his hometown in Donbas and heading to the relative safety of Lviv,
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A widow walks with her children and her father after the death of her husband, Mykola, who was killed fighting for his country during the Russian invasion. Her daughters will now grow up without their father.
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A young Ukrainian girl, SOFIA, says a graveside goodbye to her father, Mykola, during his funeral. Mykola served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine for 30 years. He was in anti-terrorist operations from 2004 until his death.
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VICTORIA, 6, holds her ears as shelling can be heard above the bunker she and her family have been living. The underground shelter is located 10km from the frontlines as Russian forces continue aggressive attacks and airstrikes on Kharkiv.
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A little girl runs with her school book in front of a destroyed apartment building, in Borodyanka. This holds the reality of so many children whose innocence has been ruined by Russia's war on Ukraine.
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VICTORIA, 6, holds her stuffed animal as shelling can be heard above the air raid bunker she and her family have been living. The underground shelter is located 10km from the frontlines as Russian forces continue aggressive attacks and airstrikes on Kharkiv.
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Two young boys emulate Ukrainian soldiers with toy guns at a makeshift checkpoint in their neighborhood in Chuhuiv in Eastern Ukraine.
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EMILY, 6, helps her father, PETRO, into his hospital room in Lviv. Two months into his military service, outside of Kherson, Petro's vehicle hit with an anti-tank mine, causing him to lose both his legs and two fingers on his left hand.
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A girl wrapped in a Ukrainian flag waits in line for food in Kherson. The city was officially liberated after nine months of Russian occupation on November 11, 2022.
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A young girl walks her bike in Kherson's Liberty Square. The city was officially liberated after more than eight months of Russian occupation on November 11, 2022.
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SOFIYKA, 7, hugs Ukrainian soldiers at the Kherson train station. The city was officially liberated on November 11, 2022, after nine months of Russian occupation.
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Police guarding Liberty Square are passed by a young girl running and playing. Kherson was officially liberated after over eight months of Russian occupation on November 11, 2022.
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Families from a high-rise apartment building shelter in the buildings parking garage until 4am. Russian missiles could be heard landing above as they waited for the air raid to be over.
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Siblings play in front of a destroyed building in Odessa, amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, by Russia.
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A family enjoys a rare peaceful summer afternoon in Luna Park fairground in Odessa. Despite night attacks, civilians take advantage of the beautiful weather on the coast of the Black Sea.
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Children walk by a makeshift beach in Sloviansk, Ukraine, following a nearby Russian rocket strike amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
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Brothers box playfully outside the frontline city of Sloviansk, The Russo-Ukrainian war really started near Sloviansk in April 2014. By then, the Kremlin's forces had already taken over Crimea.
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A child's stuffed animal sits abandoned in what is left of a destroyed building in Borodyanka, in Kyiv Oblast. This scene holds the reality of so many children whose innocence has been taken from them by Russia's war on Ukraine.
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LYUDMILA PLETINKA hugs her son as she describes missing their family and friends. They were killed in a Russian strike while attending a wake for Denys's father, Andriy Kozyr, a Ukrainian soldier. The attack on October 5, 2023, killed at least 51 civilians, marking it one of the deadliest attacks in months.
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A young girl plays on a swing in front of a Ukrainian flag at a camp for children affected by war organized by Generation Ukrainian. Gen.Ukrainian is a non-governmental organization that studies childhood during the war, creates innovative psychological rehabilitation programs for children.
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Children comfort each other during moments of grief at a camp for children affected by war by Generation Ukrainian. 'Children in Ukraine have experienced a year of horror,' said UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell. 'Millions of children are going to sleep cold and scared and waking up hoping for an end to this brutal war.
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Children sit on the stairs and comfort each other during a moment of grief at a camp for children affected by war organized by Generation Ukrainian.
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Children partake in art therapy at a camp for children affected by war by Generation Ukrainian. Gen.Ukrainian is a non-governmental organization that studies childhood during the war, creates innovative psychological rehabilitation programs for children. The camp teams up with professional psychologists and therapists over the course of three weeks to help children unpack their personal traumas and grief.
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EMILY looks at her phone in her family's newly remodeled kitchen in Lviv. She says that she has a busy life with school and helping take care of her father, Petro, after his near-fatal injuries. Petro lost both legs serving on the frontlines.
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Toy soldiers are staged for play battles, by the son of a Ukrainian soldier in Kyiv.
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A father waves goodbye to his daughter on an evacuation train out of the Pokrovsk train station in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
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A young boy peers out the compartment window, watching as families board an evacuation train on the platform in Prokovsk and headed for Poland and safety from Russian attacks.
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A Ukrainian ballet dancer performs in a bunker in Kharkiv. After the full-scale invasion, performances were moved abroad. As the war continued, good morale was never more important. Bringing the ballet back to its home has been an adjustment because large gatherings are targeted and unsafe.
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A ballet performance is given in an underground bunker in Kharkiv. After the full-scale invasion, performances were moved abroad. As the war continued, good morale was never more important. Bringing the ballet back to its home has been an adjustment because large gatherings are targeted and unsafe. A rocket can hit Kharkiv from Belgorod, Russia in 45 seconds. The bunker provides a safe space to enjoy the best of Ukrainian dance and culture.
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A Ukrainian girl prepares for her ballet performance in a bunker in Kharkiv. After the full-scale invasion, performances were moved abroad. As the war continued, good morale was never more important. Bringing the ballet back to its home has been an adjustment because large gatherings are targeted and unsafe. A rocket can hit Kharkiv from Belgorod, Russia in 45 seconds. The bunker provides a safe space to enjoy the best of Ukrainian dance and culture.
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A young girl walks down subway stairs to class underground, where her school has been constructed in a metro station in Kharkiv. Many schools have been moved underground to protect students from Russian airstrikes.
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A young student peers out the window as children attend class underground, at a school set up in a metro station in Kharkiv. Schools moved underground to protect help children from Russian airstrikes.
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Children attend class underground, at a school built in a metro station in Kharkiv. Classes moved underground to help protect students from the threat of Russian airstrikes.
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A child kisses his dog during a Sunday church service that was interrupted by an air raid warning in Kharkiv, amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
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Children run through the schoolyard of School No.134 in Kharkiv Oblast. Over 45 schools have been destroyed in the city, and over 3,700 educational facilities have been damaged throughout the entire country amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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MARINA holds her newborn child at the last maternity hospital in Pokrovsk, after Russian forces advance in the region.
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A family with children was evacuated to safety by car from Vovchansk amid the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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A girl hugs her father after being evacuated from Vovchansk, amid the ongoing Russian invasion.
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A Ukrainian girl wades beachside in the cool waters of the Kharkiv river in Kharkiv, following strikes in the area the day before.
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Children play in a courtyard of Sumy under the glow of a flashlight, during a blackout following the invasion by Ukrainian forces into Kursk, Russia.
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Svetlana (left) and her four children sit at a shelter outside Pokrovsk. They are anxiously waiting to be evacuated with Russian forces advancing less than 15km away.
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SVETLANA and her four children sit at a shelter outside Pokrovsk. They are anxiously waiting to be evacuated with Russian forces advancing less than 15km away.
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MARINA TUMANYAN walks with her baby in her neighborhood in Kherson. Marina's children KATERYNA, 10, and OLEKSII, 4, only spend a few hours a day outdoors because of the threat of Russian drones that hunt civilians.
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Children in cadets's uniforms gather at an academy in Kyiv to honor the children killed since the beginning of the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Children gather at an academy in Kyiv, for a candle vigil to honor the children killed since the beginning of the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. 659 children have died in the war to date.
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