Maksym Tupkalenko, 6, one of the last children left in his frontline village, plays with a toy tank on his bed in Kalynove, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, April 11, 2025. Instead of scampering across playgrounds, Maksym and his brother Andrii, 8, climb through abandoned trenches and charred shells of armoured vehicles that sit on the outskirts of the village, playing soldiers and setting up make-believe checkpoints to vet fellow villagers. “They’re kids afflicted by war,” said their mother Varvara Tupkalenko, 30.REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura