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The Mariupol diary: Ukraine war through 8-year-old eyes

Spending weeks in a basement with his family, eight-year-old Yegor Kravtsov filled the pages of his small blue diary with an idyllic image of Greece on its cover.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: The horrors of the bloodiest chapter so far in the Ukraine conflict are poignantly captured in the words and drawings of an eight-year-old boy.

Yegor Kravtsov kept a secret diary in Mariupol as Ukrainian forces fought an increasingly desperate defence against Russian troops.

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