Murat Sahin, a UNICEF representative in Ukraine, plays with children at a local school in Krymske, one of the most isolated settlements on contact line of the war in the eastern Donbas region.
Growing up within 20 kilometers of the contact line of Russia’s war in eastern Ukraine, one of the first things that children learn is to be extremely careful when playing outside, as there are landmines hidden under and on the ground.
As of August 2020, at least 39 children were killed and 137 were injured due to mines and explosives in the Donbas since the start of Russia’s war in 2014, according to UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children’s Fund. Ukraine ranks third worldwide in the number of casualties caused by landmines and other explosive remnants of war, according to UNICEF.
