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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Anthony France

1,500 Ukrainian children living in subway tunnels to escape Vladimir Putin’s war

Liudmyla Voloshenko, 41, is busy combing her 10-year-old daughter Sonia’s hair

(Picture: Khrystyna Pashkina / Unicef)

Around 1,500 children are living in subway tunnels seeking shelter from the war in Ukraine, according to Unicef.

Aid workers said many boys and girls had been underground for more than a month as Vladimir Putin’s troops destroyed town and cities with shelling.

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