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Russia’s war has wounded 491 Ukrainian children since Feb. 24

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According to Ukraine's Prosecutor General’s Office, 263 children have been killed since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. The figures are expected to be higher since they do not include casualties in areas where hostilities are ongoing nor in Russian-occupied areas, the office said.

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The Kyiv Independent’s Jared Goyette speaks with a Canadian volunteer, Brittney Shki-Giizis, who left the Canadian military to fight in Ukraine. A former tank instructor, she explains why she chose to come to the front, how she learned Ukrainian to serve in a Ukrainian unit, and how the war’s shift toward drones led her to become an FPV (first-person view) drone pilot.

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