Ukrainian refugees in Poland get help for trauma you can't see
Warsaw, Poland Eight-year-old Yana was going to gymnastics class six days a week at home near Odessa, Ukraine.
Now, she can only practice by herself on a patch of open floor in a refugee center here in the Polish capital. Yana is one of millions of Ukrainian children coping with change: forced to leave her home, her passions and her father behind in the aftermath of Russian President Vladimir Putin's brutal invasion of their country. "There were explosions there and stuff like that," she said quietly, recalling that she heard more than she actually saw.
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