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Lessons No Child Should Learn: Growing Up in Conflict in Eastern Ukraine

For eight years, hundreds of thousands of children growing up in eastern Ukraine have been longing for peace. Sixteen-year-old Nastia led a visitor on a tour of her first school in the village of Pavlopil in eastern Ukraine on February 11, 2022. The building has been closed since it was damaged years ago by heavy shelling. There are jagged holes in the roof; weeds grow in the courtyard. Her former classroom sits empty. "I cannot study here now because of fighting that took place here," she said. "Now I go to a different school." "I don't want the fighting to repeat, because it's extremely scary," said Nastia. "You don't know where the shell will hit, what will happen next. You have to ask yourself — how would I cope with it? How can you help yourself to forget about it? I wish it was like before when everything was safe." Children growing up surrounded by conflict learn lessons no child should have to learn. More than 750 schools and kindergartens have been damaged since the violence began in 2014, disrupting access to education for thousands of children on both sides of the contact line. The conflict has taken a severe toll on the psychological well-being of an entire generation of children in eastern Ukraine. And children here are growing up in one of the world's most mine-contaminated stretches of land. Every day, they live, play and go to school in areas littered with landmines, unexploded ordnance and other deadly explosive remnants of war. Since the onset of the conflict, UNICEF has been on the ground across eastern Ukraine, delivering psychosocial support and mine risk education to children, youth and caregivers. UNICEF also supports repairs to damaged schools and kindergartens and distributes vital education supplies such as educational kits, furniture sets and sports equipment.