Orphaned Ukrainian Children Navigate Loss and Recovery Amid War
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Ukraine's President Zelensky made a strongly worded appeal |
| 0:40.8 | for more help from his European allies in Davos as the U.S. triggered crisis over Greenland |
| 0:45.9 | diverts Europe's attention away from Ukraine. Russian attacks on their power grid have left |
| 0:51.0 | thousands in Kiev and beyond without heat amid an especially brutal winter. |
| 0:56.1 | The UN's human rights chief called the targeting of civilian energy infrastructure cruel and a breach of the rules of war. |
| 1:02.9 | As Russia's attack on Ukraine reaches the four-year mark next month, we turn to look at its impact on Ukraine's children. |
| 1:10.4 | Journalist Anna Nemstava has interviewed kids and teens across Ukraine, orphaned by the war. |
| 1:16.4 | And joins me now. Welcome to Forum, Anna. |
| 1:19.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:20.5 | In many cases, the children you interviewed actually witnessed their parents' death, as was the case with Alina Satozko. |
| 1:29.1 | Can you tell us what happened to her in November of 2024? |
| 1:32.7 | Alina was together with her mother visiting her grandmother in Gerson, Southen City on the Black Sea. |
| 1:42.6 | And they were hiding from the bombing that day. |
| 1:46.4 | There were nine strikes on Kyrsson in the bathroom. |
| 1:51.4 | And during the explosion, they were all the group of people hiding in the bathroom. |
| 1:58.0 | And a missile hit nearby, |
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