Ukraine War Diaries: War growing ever more distant for the children who fled Ukraine

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The combination of a long war and continued refuge is starting to reshape the lives of some children who left, in ways that one parent never could have imagined.

Ukraine War Diarist, Ilyas Verdiev, pictured, Dec 2022

According to the United Nations, nearly five million Ukrainians have fled the war to Europe. For Verdiev, like so many others, it was hoped the move would only be temporary. But after 11 months of fighting, he's getting used to not being able to see his children grow up.“My family are still in Poland, they’re safe,” he says, affirming the rationale behind his family's continued separation.

"Thankfully he understands that there is a reason that his daddy is in Kyiv and he has to stay in a different country with his mom and little brother. And sometimes he tells me that he wants to help me and that he needs me and he wants his daddy back." To listen to more of Ilyas' story and the stories of Oksana and Seva, click here for the latest episode ofFrom the creators of Sky News' award-winning StoryCast, Ukraine War Diaries is a weekly podcast following those living on Europe's new frontline, and those who have escaped it.

 

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Yes and Europe has had enough of them

russiawarinUkraine. Nearly a year on and the west is still prevaricating, in the mean time the innocent suffer. The raison d'etre of the UnitedNations and NATO was to prevent war and protect, not to stand by and wait to see which side of the fence to sit on! PutinWarCriminal

Nearly three million of whom fled to Russia 😁 👍

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