Prosecuting Russia’s crimes must not endanger child victims
Air raid sirens have become the background sound of childhood in Ukraine. War has never been about headlines or statistics: for Ukrainian children it is the memories of missile attacks on their houses, schools and hospitals; weeks spent in basements without basic necessities; sudden unexplained destruction of their routine and education; urgent need to leave their homes; and for some interrogations at checkpoints, family separation, abduction, deportation and forcible transfer and the transformation of identity under Russian occupation.
January 2008… Negotiations between Ukraine and the EU on a new enhanced agreement to replace the Partnership and Cooperation Agreement have been under way for almost a year.
As of May 2026, in the heart of Europe, in Ukraine, the largest war since World War II and the bloodiest in terms of casualties in the 21st century is still ongoing.
For decades, developmental psychology treated adulthood as a finished state, as if identity crises belonged only to adolescence while adults had already “figured themselves out.”
May 9 military parade on Red Square exposed a growing sense of disgust toward a tired, heavily guarded Vladimir Putin rather than projecting superpower strength, an analyst wrote following the event.