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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen announces she would help organise a conference on securing the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia during the ongoing conflict. "We are at the very beginning of very hard work, we aim to pull together international pressure to take all possible measures to establish the whereabouts of these children," she says. SOUNDBITE
Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted in an interview that Ukrainian forces "have high levels of organisation, training and intelligence," and that Wagner had lost 20,000 men in Bakhmut.
The boys' guns can't kill, but the war they play, or fight in, on a verdant Ukrainian field is real for them. Over a year into Russia's invasion, the fighting has seeped into Ukrainian children's games and worldviews, impacting them in ways they will carry forever.
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