NEWSLINK AP: Ukraine’s grinding war stains innocence of childhood

Seryozha colors in his drawing of a tank, lost in thought. Like many 7-year-olds in eastern Ukraine, he has trouble recalling a time before the war.

“They’ve always been shooting,” he says, vigorously scratching with the brightest of pencils.

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