Europe | A black hole

Ukraine’s war has created millions of broken families

Children and wives have been apart from their fathers and husbands for more than two years

A Ukrainian soldier waves goodbye to his family at the railroad station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine
The real cost of warPhotograph: Getty Images
|KYIV

ACCORDING TO A survey conducted this year by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), an organisation that supports refugees all over the world, an astonishing 74% of Ukrainians report being separated from a close family member because of the war.

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