U.N.: Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine’s children have fled homes

Refugee women with children walk to boarding transport at the central train station in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, April 7, 2022. | Czarek Sokolowski/AP Photo

By Associated Press

04/11/2022 08:14 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS — 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. children’s agency said Monday.

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

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