New report warns that mental health impacts for Ukraine's refugee children could cost billions

After food and shelter, aid groups say mental health support for refugees is imperative for lasting stability. (AP: Pavel Golovkin)

Lessons learned from a decades-long civil war could help counter the long-lasting mental health impacts on Ukrainian children exposed to air strikes, bombing, and other war violence, a child trauma specialist says. 

"These are the adults and the society of the future," says Eva Alisic, an associate professor of child trauma and recovery at the University of Melbourne.