Ukraine saw 89 children killed in March. But we are sending them back?

Micheál Martin told president Zelenskyy that Ireland would support Ukraine 'for as long as it takes'. Apparently that meant five more months, writes Brian Killoran

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a house destroyed by a Russian strike, in Dnipro, Ukraine, last week. Photo: AP/Mykola Synelnykov

Over four years have passed since the full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. In that time we have seen an extraordinary civilian catastrophe emerge for the people of that country. 

They have been forcibly displaced from their homes and their country, cast into a traumatic churning sea of uncertainty and danger. Since the invasion in 2022, the United Nations estimate that 13,883 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, of which 3,452 were children.