Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Babies taught to shoot guns, forced to survive in hellhole bomb shelters and dumped in dirty orphanages: The harrowing truth of the 'forgotten' children caught in Putin's war with Ukraine

  • MailOnline reveals suffering of 'lost generation' of children hit by war between pro-Russian rebels and government
  • Hundreds left orphaned by fighting but others were abandoned because their mothers could not afford to feed them
  • Babies and toddlers move into bomb shelters where they scavenge for food and play in the dirt in filthy nappies
  • Some children even 'disappear' amid fears they are being sent to Vladimir Putin's Russia to new homes and families 
  • MailOnline found children in eastern Ukraine who can identify weapons and boast of being able to shoot the enemy
  • Centres where these boys and girls are abandoned or seek refuge can barely find enough food to keep them alive
  • The mental and physical scars left by growing up in a warzone - on Europe's doorstep - will never be erased 
  • UN has created 17 new 'global goals' to highlight poverty, mistreatment and malnutrition in children worldwide 

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