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Russia war in Ukraine pushes 4 million children into poverty: UN

Children play on top of destroyed Russian military vehicles and weapons outside St Michael's Cathedral, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 1, 2022 [File: Ahmed Jadallah/ Reuters]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation have pushed some four million children into poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to the United Nations children agency.

“Children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine,” UNICEF said on Monday.

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