Published on 09/01/2022 20:51 Updated on 09/01/2022 21:06 FRANCE 2 Article written by M. Burgot, S. Guillemot, B. Bervas, D. Padalka, A. Makrushin – France 2 France Televisions It’s back to school also in Ukraine, Thursday, September 1, but only a third of the students will be able to resume face-to-face. The war that has been hitting them for more than six months has had a heavy impact on their daily lives. According to the UN, 1,000 children were killed or injured and 2,500 schools were destroyed by gunfire. A child at attention, at each military passage. No face-to-face school for him, because of the war raging in his region. From the height of his 10 years and with his fake bulletproof vest and a plastic Kalashnikov, he shows his solidarity with the Ukrainian fighters. “When the soldiers see me, it helps them to have better morale. This war is hard for them”, reacts the young boy. Several groups of children have picked up the same habit. One child even made a fake rocket launcher out of soda bottles, a symbol of a stolen childhood and young minds shaped by six months of war.
Missile fire now punctuates the lives of these young people. In the city center of Kharkiv (Ukraine), a father explains to his young child, whom he is holding in his arms, that it was the Russians who fired. In the apartments, a teenager is in shock. Her parents’ windows were shattered by the blast of an explosive. “We will take revenge, we will make them suffer too,” he says from the height of his 13 years and a hatred of Russians already very present. “I’m tired of being in pain all the time. These pains prevent me from sleeping”, testifies another young person, survivor of a missile burst which plunged him into a coma for three days. Traumas that will remain etched for life. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share by email Share link