{"id":135169,"date":"2025-02-24T17:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135169"},"modified":"2025-02-24T15:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T20:51:11","slug":"church-times-ukraines-children-suffering-psychological-torture-three-years-after-russian-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135169","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Ukraine\u2019s children suffering \u2018psychological torture\u2019 three years after Russian invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One in three people displaced by the war in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/ukraine\">Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0remain in urgent need of humanitarian aid, charities have warned on the third anniversary of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/russia\">Russian<\/a>\u00a0invasion, on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An estimated 3.6 million people have been internally displaced in Ukraine, while 6.5 million people have fled the country to find safety elsewhere: 90 per cent of the refugees are women and children. Vital infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, has been destroyed in parts of the country. Conditions are worst along the eastern and southern frontlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Children are traumatised, and suffering from a lack of food and disrupted education, World Vision reports. An estimated 659 children have been killed in three years, and 1747 injured. \u201cThe emotional burden faced by Ukrainian children cannot be overlooked,\u201d its Operations Director, Arman Grigoryan, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2025\/28-february\/news\/world\/ukraine-s-children-suffering-psychological-torture-three-years-after-russian-invasion\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One in three people displaced by the war in Ukraine remain in urgent need of humanitarian aid, charities have warned on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L1wPcXQsZh\">https:\/\/t.co\/L1wPcXQsZh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7WIc1MLm89\">pic.twitter.com\/7WIc1MLm89<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/1894008415640289398?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in three people displaced by the war in\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0remain in urgent need of humanitarian aid, charities have warned on the third anniversary of the\u00a0Russian\u00a0invasion, on Monday. An estimated 3.6 million people have been internally displaced in Ukraine, while 6.5 million<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=135169\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,104,106,479,469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-health-medicine","category-military-armed-forces","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135173,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135169\/revisions\/135173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}