Heartbreaking photos of Ukrainian children affected by Russian invasion

Hundreds of thousands of children have been caught up in the violence that has engulfed Ukraine, forcing them to witness violence, evacuations, abandonment and long fraught journeys to safety since Russia invaded the country last month. The long, exhausting, and inhumanly cruel Russian invasion of Ukraine has taken a toll on all its citizens. The Ukrainian children are safe nowhere, Whether it is bunkers, roads or hospitals, these pictures narrate how life has been inhumanly unfair to them.

Heartbreaking photos of Ukrainian children affected by Russian invasion

A group of children wait to board a bus for their transfer to Poland after fleeing the ongoing Russian invasion at the main train station in Lviv, Ukraine. More than 4 million people have fled Ukraine, the United Nations said — meaning that nearly 10 per cent of the prewar population has left their country in about five weeks. Credit: Reuters Photo

A newborn poses in front of a window protected by sandbags at Kyiv's Maternity Hospital, as the Ukrainian capital faces heavy shelling from the Russian troops. Credit: AFP Photo

Two 11-year-old kids, Milana and Sasha, who were wounded during the shelling of Mariupol, sit in a bed in the children's ward of the hospital, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, in Zaporizhzhia. Credit: Reuters Photo

The mass exodus, staggering in its scale and speed, has turned into the fastest-growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. Credit: Reuters Photo

Polish policemen carry Ukrainian children evacuated from orphanages amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine as they are transported by buses to their temporary accommodation after arriving in Przemysl, Poland. Credit: Reuters Photo

A newborn baby is seen undergoing treatment at a hospital. Thousands of refugees from Mariupol have fled to the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia. Credit: AFP Photo

Children displaced families are seen in a bus as they're being transported to the Children's care home in Ukraine. Credit: Reuters Photo

Dima, a three-year-old boy who was wounded during the shelling of Mariupol, undergoes treatment at a hospital in Zaporizhzhia. Credit: Reuters Photo

Children, who are undergoing treatment, sit on chairs moved to the hallways of basement floors of Okhmadet Children's Hospital in Kyiv. Credit: Reuters Photo

A little patient stands on a medical bench in the basement of Kyiv's central children's hospital, prior to the evacuation from the hospital to Poland and Germany, in Kyiv. Credit: AFP Photo