Ukrainian gymnast, 10: ‘I can’t put my athletic career on hold’

Dasha competed in gymnastics at a national level in Ukraine but is now living in Romania in a hub for child refugees [Courtesy of Marta Repetatska]

In a white house decorated with flowers and butterflies set in the Romanian Carpathian mountains, young Ukrainian children run around. Older kids sit in front of laptops, preparing to start online school. Dogs bark outside. Mothers prepare breakfast.

Since March, 21 refugee children and 13 adults have been staying at this temporary shelter, which before the war was used as an activities centre, to organise summer camps for young Romanians with cancer.