‘They draw bombs, tanks and wishes for peace’: Ukraine’s child mental health crisis
by Lorenzo Tondo in Lviv from World news | The Guardian on (#5X4MS)
Theatre workshops and art classes have sprung up to offer temporary respite from war as doctors warn of widespread trauma
Two days after Russian forces entered Ukraine, on 26 February, the country's public military administration requested that a psychological support system be put in place at Lviv train station.
Thousands of women and children were passing through the station, 80km (50 miles) from the border with Poland, and the need for doctors and psychiatrists to support the displaced was immediately clear.
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