Shifting political winds look positive for democrats in November. But they've also left some in the party wondering whether they should have been more prepared to highlight Roe as an issue earlier. Nightly reports 👇
The uncertainty of what’s ahead weighs heavily on the Ukrainian population, Róisín Mangan, Save the Children’s senior humanitarian advocacy manager, told Nightly today. Those concerns were amplified this week as the U.S. warned that Russia was stepping up efforts to attack civilian infrastructure in the coming days.
Six months of war has been especially hard on children, said James Elder, a UNICEF spokesperson who’s on the ground in Kyiv. An estimated 972 children have been killed or wounded, though this is likely an undercount. The injuries are “ghastly,” Elder said, telling the story of a mother he met this week who was waiting for her 10-year-old to come out of surgery after he was wounded by a bomb.
“There are hundreds of thousands with wounds you can’t see,” Elder said. “UNICEF unfortunately has learned from Syria or Yemen or Afghanistan that the longer the war engulfs the country, the more likely that trauma is to scar children.” Some parents are eager to send their kids to a classroom, just so their child can feel just a bit of normalcy, Elder said. Others are too afraid to let their child out of sight and will stick with online learning — something the country adapted well to during Covid.