THE CHILDREN OF UKRAINE
In August 2022, Highway Child and UNICEF deployed award-winning photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson to the frontlines of the conflict in Ukraine to capture the effects of the war on the country’s children.
A playground in Saltivka, the frontline of fighting in the early months of the war in Ukraine.
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Children pose outside their damaged school in Olyzarivka, Ukraine.
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Chairs in an abandoned classroom in Kharkiv.
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Nazar, 13, stands in front of a scarred wall in his severely damaged school in the village of Olyzarivka, Ukraine.
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Mariia, 12, in front of her school in Kharkiv, which was destroyed by an airstrike.
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Mariia dreams of becoming a psychologist to support trauma survivors.
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Diana, 9, rollerblades in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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A building in Diana's neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
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