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    The Wider Image: Childhood shaped by war for two Ukrainian

    Brothers Andrii Tupkalenko (left), 8, and Maksym Tupkalenko, 6, two of the last children left in their frontline village, pose for a photo with toy guns, their favorite toys, in Kalynove, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, April 11, 2025. Instead of scampering across playgrounds, the brothers climb through abandoned trenches and charred shells of armoured vehicles that sit on the outskirts of the village, playing soldiers and setting up make-believe checkpoints to vet fellow villagers. "They're kids afflicted by war," said their mother Varvara Tupkalenko, 30. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura
    The Wider Image: Childhood shaped by war for two Ukrainian

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