The United Nations children agency, UNICEF, says four million children have been pushed into poverty across Eastern Europe and Central Asia as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and rising inflation.
Russian and Ukrainian children have been at the receiving end of the war since Moscow attacked its neighbor in February.
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Reports reveal that Russia accounts for nearly three-quarters of the total increase in the number of children living in poverty due to the Ukraine war and a cost of living crisis across the region, with an additional 2.8 million children now living in households below the poverty line.
Romania followed closely behind, with a further 110,000 children living in poverty.
