NGO tells VOA millions of Ukrainian children affected by deportation, occupation and displacement abroad since start of Russia war

Ukraine has seen its child population decline by millions since Moscow launched its war on Ukraine in 2014, due to deportation, occupation, displacement abroad and direct war casualties, Mykola Kuleba, founder and head of Save Ukraine, told VOA. Kuleba's NGO, Save Ukraine, rescues children from Russia and Russian-controlled territories. Russia’s full-scale invasion that began in 2022 triggered the largest displacement crisis in Europe since World War II. Although many Ukrainians have returned home, more than five million remain abroad, according to UNHCR, most of them in Europe, many of them…