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Sound of Life Campaign Tonight, Ukrainian parents are placing whistles around their children's necks. Not for play. For survival.

06/17/2026

This is why Ukraine needs more air defense.

As the video shows, air defense systems and interceptor missiles are what allow Ukraine to destroy incoming missiles in the sky — before they reach homes, schools, hospitals, and the places where children sleep.

Every interceptor matters.
Every protected sky saves lives.
Every silence costs lives.

Join us in calling for stronger air defense for Ukraine — to protect children and civilians from the terror of Russian missiles and drones.

Share this story with your audience.
Help the world hear the urgency.

06/16/2026

We are honored to welcome Ievgen Klopotenko — one of Ukraine's most celebrated chefs and restaurateurs, and the winner of MasterChef Ukraine — as an ambassador of the Sound of Life campaign.

Yevhen has spent his career feeding Ukraine. He brought Ukrainian borscht onto the UNESCO list of cultural heritage. He reformed Ukraine's school lunch program so children could grow up nourished by their own culture. When the full-scale invasion began, he opened his kitchens to families fleeing the bombs.

A man who has given his life to the table — to the simple act of feeding children — understands what is being taken. A meal at home. A family safely under one roof. A child who falls asleep and wakes up in the morning.

That is why he is joining us. We thank him for the call he addresses to the world: hear the cry of Ukraine's children. Help save them from the drones and missiles Russia launches over civilians, night and day.

In the middle of everything happening across the world, we refuse to let this become background noise. The terror in Ukrainian cities and villages is not occasional — it is deliberate, constant, and aimed at ordinary people. At homes, schools, hospitals, and playgrounds. In darkness and in broad daylight.

Air defense is not an abstract military question. It is what stops a missile before it reaches a sleeping child. Air defense is child protection.

We will not stop until Ukraine's children and their parents can sleep without fear of being killed by a Russian drone. We will keep speaking about a reality that should never be any child's reality — until every child in Ukraine can live in peace, at home, surrounded by the care and warmth of their family.

Welcome, Yevhen. Your voice matters.

Protect Ukraine's sky. Protect Ukrainian children.
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Overnight, Russia launched 70 missiles and 611 drones at Ukraine — one of the largest combined strikes of the year. The ...
06/15/2026

Overnight, Russia launched 70 missiles and 611 drones at Ukraine — one of the largest combined strikes of the year. The main target was Kyiv. Dnipro, Kharkiv, and other cities were hit too.

The targets were not military. They were homes, residential neighborhoods, power lines — civilian life itself. In Kyiv, drones and debris tore into apartment blocks. Fire engulfed the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, an 11th-century monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Around 140,000 people were left without power.

In Kyiv, at least five people were killed and more than 30 injured — among them two children. The aftermath across Ukrainian cities is still unfolding.

This is the reality Ukrainian families live each night: children trying to sleep under the threat of missiles and drones, parents preparing for the possibility that their home could collapse before morning.

We call on the international community to respond — now — and to stop the constant terror against civilians and the homes they live in.

And we ask each of you: Share this story. Speak to your elected representatives. Ask them to support stronger air defense for Ukraine.

Right now, air defense is the one tool that intercepts a missile before it reaches a child's bedroom — that keeps children alive and keeps their families whole.

Help us keep this reality as urgent as it truly is. Help us save children — and their childhood.

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This is what it looks like to search for the people who lived in a building the Russian army has just struck.It is delib...
06/08/2026

This is what it looks like to search for the people who lived in a building the Russian army has just struck.

It is deliberate — homes and residential neighborhoods, hit at the hours when people are asleep, resting, or at work. The last weeks have been full of these attacks. And the hardest part is this: it is no longer "the last days." It is simply everyday life now. So people live day by day, hoping and praying they stay untouched — that their children stay safe, and that if their home is hit, they are found, and found alive.

The horror has reached a surreal new level. The things adults now discuss — the things children discuss — are unthinkable, and should stay unthinkable. On playgrounds, children compare drones: which models are faster, which are harder to intercept, how each one measures up against one air-defense system or another. They debate where the safest place to hide is. They ask one another whether they could bring a drone down if it came for the building next to them.

This has become the conversation of childhood. They are losing the safe, healthy, peaceful childhood every child is owed.

Sumy region — today, June 8: a Russian drone struck a residential apartment building in Konotop. Rescuers pulled survivors from the rubble; one of the injured is a child. Hours later, they recovered the body of a 78-year-old woman from beneath the collapse. A second strike damaged private homes nearby.

Zaporizhzhia — two days earlier, June 6: Russian drone strikes on the regional center injured three people, among them a child born in 2016.

There is no justification for any of this. It must be stopped, answered for, and condemned.

What we can do now is raise our voice. Air defense is not an abstract military matter — it is what stops a missile or a drone before it reaches a child's bedroom. Intercept the strike, and the walls stay standing. Keep the walls standing, and no child is buried beneath them — and no parent has to rely on a whistle to help rescuers find their child in the dark.

Contact your elected representatives and ask them to support stronger air defense for Ukraine. Share these stories. Do not look away.

Protect Ukraine's sky. Protect Ukrainian children.

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Today is June 4 — the Day of Remembrance for Children Who Died as a Result of Russia's Armed Aggression Against Ukraine....
06/04/2026

Today is June 4 — the Day of Remembrance for Children Who Died as a Result of Russia's Armed Aggression Against Ukraine.

Ukraine did not choose this date by accident. Around the world, June 4 is also observed as the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression, established by the UN General Assembly to acknowledge the suffering of children in times of war and violence.

Today, we hold two silences at once — and one memory: every child whose life was ended by a war that began in 2014 and still reaches the youngest among us.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, as of June 4, 2026, 707 children have been killed and 2,548 wounded since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

These numbers are not final. With parts of Ukraine still under occupation or active combat, the true toll cannot yet be fully counted. The heaviest losses have fallen on families in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kyiv regions.
Remembrance alone is not enough.

Memory must become protection.

We ask you: share their stories. Advocate for child protection. Do not look away. Contact your elected representatives and call for stronger air defense for Ukraine.

Stronger air defense helps protect children's lives. When missiles are intercepted, homes stay standing — and children stay safe.

🕯️ Stand with the children who can no longer stand with us.

Protect Ukraine's sky. Protect Ukrainian children.

Photo credit: Suspilne Cherkasy Media

Last night, Ukraine’s children went underground again.According to official Ukrainian data, Russia launched 656 attack d...
06/02/2026

Last night, Ukraine’s children went underground again.

According to official Ukrainian data, Russia launched 656 attack drones and 73 missiles of various types against Ukraine.

Kyiv was the primary target. Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava region, and other regions were also attacked.

Current reporting confirms at least 22 people killed, including two children, and 130 wounded across Ukraine.
In Kyiv alone, 6 people were killed and 79 injured.
In Dnipro, search and rescue operations in a residential district have been completed: 16 people were killed and 42 injured, including 4 children.

In Kyiv, more than 41,000 people took shelter in the metro — the highest recorded number during a Russian night attack in recent years. Among them were more than 4,500 children.

These are not abstract numbers.
They are children sleeping on metro platforms.
Parents holding them through the night.
Families waiting for rescue teams near destroyed homes.
Children wounded in places where they should have been safe.

This is why Ukraine urgently needs stronger air defense.
Air defense is not escalation.
Air defense is civilian protection.
Air defense is child protection.

When Ukraine’s sky is protected, lives are saved.

📣We call on partners, policymakers, and citizens not to look away.

Support stronger air defense for Ukraine.
Advocate for the timely delivery of defensive systems and interceptors.
Donate to trusted organizations helping protect civilians and support rescue efforts.

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06/01/2026

Today marks the first day of summer — a time when children usually finish the school year, celebrate their achievements, and step excitedly into a new season of childhood.

In kindergartens and schools, this is normally a time of joy. Children gather for celebrations, while parents watch with pride, gratitude, and love — smiling, inspired, and full of hope.

June 1 is also the International Day for the Protection of Children — a reminder of children’s rights, safety, education, and our shared responsibility to protect the next generation.

In Ukraine, this day remains deeply meaningful. But since 2022, it has also carried a painful reality.

Russian attacks do not stop for children’s celebrations. Even on days meant for school events, laughter, and family memories, children, parents, and teachers remain at risk from Russian missiles and drones — in schools, playgrounds, residential neighborhoods, and schoolyards, even in broad daylight.

That is why many children’s celebrations in Ukraine now take place not in assembly halls or open courtyards, but in shelters and basements — wherever it is safer.

For Ukraine, this day is more than a symbolic date. It is a call to protect every child’s right to live, learn, grow, and dream in safety.

For too many families, a day that should be filled with light, joy, and children’s laughter is also marked by grief, fear, and remembrance.

These stories are painful to read. They are difficult to imagine. But we must not look away.

We can turn this pain into action — into a shared commitment to help Ukrainian children reclaim their childhoods, with safety, education, opportunities, joy, and the support of a loving family.

Your voice matters.

✔️ Share the stories of Ukrainian children.
✔️ Tell us where in the world you are joining from.
✔️Record a message of support.
✔️Contact your local representatives and call for stronger air defense for Ukraine.

On the International Day for the Protection of Children, we remind the world: every child has the right to grow up in safety, love, and dignity.

Protect Ukraine’s sky. Protect Ukrainian children.

Video by natali_hrom_ / Instagram

05/31/2026

Happy Birthday, Kyiv — the heart of Ukraine and a home for generations of Ukrainian children.

For more than 1,500 years, Kyiv has endured wars, invasions, destruction, and countless trials. Yet it continues to stand — strong, free, and alive.

Today, Kyiv is not only a symbol of Ukraine’s resilience. It is also a city where children continue to grow, learn, play, and dream, even under the shadow of war.

They wake up to air raid alerts.
They sleep in corridors and shelters.
They carry memories no child should have to carry.
And still, Kyiv remains their home.

According to UNICEF, based on verified data from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, at least 3,452 children in Ukraine have been killed or injured since February 2022. Behind every number is a child. A family. A future that deserved protection.

On Kyiv Day, we honor a city that continues to live — but we also remember the children whose childhoods have been shaped by sirens, missiles, drones, displacement, and loss.

Kyiv stood and continues to stand — for its people, for its children, and for Ukraine’s future.

Protect Ukraine’s sky.
Protect Ukrainian children.

Video: / Instagram

05/28/2026

A children’s playground should be a place of laughter, safety, and ordinary family life.

Yesterday in Kherson, it became the site of another Russian attack.
Russian forces struck the Korabelnyi district with multiple-launch rocket systems, hitting a playground where parents and children were spending time together. A father was killed. His 36-year-old wife and their two young daughters, ages 6 and 3, were seriously injured and are now receiving medical care.

This is the reality Ukrainian families continue to face: playgrounds, homes, schools, hospitals, and neighborhoods turned into targets.
Please do not look away.

Share these stories. Speak about them. Contact your elected representatives and ask them to support stronger air defense for Ukraine.

Air defense is not an abstract military issue. It is what helps stop missiles and rockets before they reach children, families, and civilian communities.

Protect Ukraine’s sky. Protect Ukrainian children.

Video: / Instagram
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05/27/2026

Благодійний Фонд "Діти Героїв" recorded a conversation with Adélie Pojzman-Pontay hosted by The Telegraph about the grief of losing a parent to war — a reality many children in Ukraine are forced to live through, and one that deeply affects their emotional well-being, stability, and sense of safety.

We invite you to watch this video.

We also encourage you to support the Children of Heroes in its mission to care for children who have lost one or both parents due to Russia’s war — through psychological rehabilitation, educational support, socialization opportunities, and everyday care they can rely on.

Every child deserves safety, care, and a future held with dignity.

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