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Reuters
Reuters
Health
Silvia Aloisi, Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Zohra Bensemra

War means tough choices in Ukraine's vast child protection system

Sophia, 16, who was taken away from her widowed mother along with her siblings, hugs her brother Mykhaylo, 8, at a state shelter in Lviv, Ukraine March 23, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

Nina spent her 16th birthday in a Lviv state shelter for children last week, far from her family and friends in the east of Ukraine, after she fled advancing Russian forces early in the war.

One of 23 children evacuated from another childcare centre in Lysychansk, a town more than 1,000 km (620 miles) away near the eastern frontlines, Nina says she misses her friends there and does not know when she will see them again.

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