“I have heard stories of the desperate steps parents are taking to get their children to safety, and children saddened that they are unable to get back to school.” “They have been forced to leave everything behind - their homes, their schools and, often, their family members,” he told the U.N. Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF’s emergency programs director who just returned from Ukraine, said having 4.8 million of Ukraine’s 7.5 million children displaced in such a short time is “quite incredible.” He said it is something he hadn’t before seen happen so quickly in 31 years of humanitarian work. Nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion, and the United Nations has verified the deaths of 142 youngsters, though the number is almost certainly much higher, the U.N.
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