Boredom, loneliness plague Ukrainian youth near front line

A child waits for his mother outside one of the few shops still open in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Of the roughly 275,000 children aged 17 or younger in the Donetsk region before Russia's invasion, around 40,000 remain, the province's regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told The Associated Press in an interview. (AP Photo/David Goldman)