Psychologist Núria Casanovas analyses the drawings of seven children who have lived through the war in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, which has been under threat of invasion by Vladimir Putin’s troops for more than a year.
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The war has turned the spotlight on Ukraine. And beyond the tragedy of the conflict, endemic problems of society are emerging. One of the most serious is the ‘social orphanhood’, the more than 100,000 children living in institutions inherited from the ‘post-Soviet’ system.
By mid-2023, almost 200,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war had arrived in Italy, including 50,000 minors. The Ministry of Labour has launched a socio-labour integration programme for vulnerable migrants.
In July it will be 500 days since Vladimir Putin’s Russian troops invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022. A war is the consequence of a failure, or a series of failures. And this war is no exception. But Europe is no longer the same Europe of the 1990s, which did not face the wars in the former Yugoslavia together. Now Europe has united to face an aggression that has shocked the world.