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UN: Almost two-thirds of Ukrainian children have fled their homes.

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About 4.8 million out of 7.5 million children had to leave their homes, said Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s emergency programs director, upon his return from Ukraine. Additionally, the UN confirms the deaths of 142 children but the number is "almost certainly higher," according to Fontaine.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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