Dispatch from Ukraine ^43.6%

Brookings - By Mara Karlin - 6/23/2026, 2:10 PM

Negativity Bias 25.6% - Appeal to Emotion 22.1% - Biased Writer Voice 21.5%

Just over a dozen miles from the front lines in the Russia-Ukraine war, kids are running in circles and screaming in Kharkiv, Ukraine. For a brief period, the nearly four-and-a-half-year war isn’t at the top of their minds. They’re in school—in an underground nuclear bunker refurbished by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees... more