At just ten years old, Nikita has witnessed war and violence first-hand, including a cluster bomb falling on the yard of his family's home. He is just one of several children who are among the residents to have survived five months of Russian-occupation and fierce fighting in the frontline town of Izium. France 24 went to meet some of the young families who have lived through the horrors of war in the eastern Ukrainian town.


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