More than a year on, Russian President Vladimir Putin's war continues to have a devastating impact across all sectors of Ukrainian society. Among the hardest hit—Ukraine's children.
Russia has "stolen Ukrainian children in an attempt to steal Ukraine's future," U.S. President Joe Biden said in remarks ahead of the one-year anniversary of the war, on February 24. "[Russia] bombed train stations, maternity hospitals, schools, and orphanages."
Biden's remarks came ahead of a damning ruling from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which made Putin a global outlaw on March 17 when he was accused of the illegal deportation of children from Ukraine to Russia during his full-scale invasion of the neighboring country.