The sounds of war echo in the distance while 10-year old Khrystyna Ksenofontova plays. Bohoyavlenka, in Ukraine's Donetsk province, lies 20 kilometers from the active front line. So her days are spent scrounging the bits of childhood she still can.
The small village of Bohoyavlenka, in Donetsk province, lies 20 kilometers from the active front line. Khrystyna’s days are spent scrounging the bits of childhood she still can. Her family refuses to evacuate and lives under a cloud of constant shelling. She wears headphones to block out the booms of the explosions.
Her mother, Yulia, and grandmother chose not to leave the village, which had a pre-war population of 1,400, after her father died from a brain injury suffered in an attack that destroyed one of their homes. They prefer to bear the brunt of the war in their hometown rather than be displaced and penniless, Yulia says.It’s a common story along the dozens of towns and villages that span the 1,000-kilometer front line in eastern Ukraine.
All her friends have gone. The child finds ways to occupy her time by studying — when the power is on she studies online — and taking care of the cats.
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