KYIV -- With each double jump and every piece that gets kinged, 11-year-old Valeria Yezhova raises more money for Ukrainian soldiers.
Yezhova, last year's world checkers champion, is playing the board game on the streets of Kyiv to raise money through donations from opponents and onlookers, and has so far sent the Ukrainian military more than 70,000 hryvnias (about 250,000 yen).
