By Emily Clark in Lviv with photography by Brendan Esposito
Updated 1 Apr 2022, 8:44am Published 1 Apr 2022, 5:55am
On February 24, war returned to Europe at a scale not seen since 1945, since the establishment of the United Nations and since promises of protection were enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.
For all the lessons available in the pages of history, a new dark chapter is being written in Ukraine.
For all the effort to avoid a third world war, global leaders now fear it is one wrong move away.
And for all the work to develop humanitarian law, Ukrainian children are being killed in a war they’re too young to fully understand.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is attempting to negotiate for peace, but the reality for many of his people is that they may not have homes to return to, that the damage has been done, that the trauma has been inflicted.
Not since World War II has the world seen a refugee crisis at the scale and speed of what is happening in Ukraine.
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James explains that when the Syrian war started 11 years ago, it took 2.5 years for 1 million children to become refugees.
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