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Ukrainian children are using creativity to overcome trauma, encouraged by non-profit Behind Blue Eyes

In a village in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine, activists documenting evidence of potential war crimes in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year interviewed a witness whose relative went missing during the early days of the war. The relative’s phone had ended up in the hands of the Russian…

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Netherlands and Denmark to donate up to 61 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine; Volodymyr Zelenskiy vows retaliation for deadly strike on city of Chernihiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has vowed stern retaliation for a Russian missile strike in the center of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv that killed seven people and wounded almost 150 others the day before

On a visit to Denmark and the Netherlands on Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the decision by the two countries to hand over F-16 planes to help Ukraine battle the Russian invasion as "historic". Follow FRANCE 24 for live updates. All times are Paris time (GMT+2).

Washington cleared the two European nations to deliver American-made warplanes last week

Russian missile attack on Chernihiv’s central square kills seven and injures 144 as Zelensky vows ‘notable response’

President Zelenskiy said a theatre and university were also damaged in the strike on the central square

A six-year-old girl was among those killed and at least 15 children were wounded

Many residents had just finished a morning of festivities and were leaving church in Chernihiv, north of Kyiv, when a Russian missile struck the city's center, heavily damaging a theater building.