Invisible Damage

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While destruction caused by the full-scale Russian invasion into Ukraine is pretty obvious and well documented, there are those invisible areas which are rarely discussed. By May 2022, 5.6 million people have left their homes in search of asylum. Some of them lost their homes, some of them lost their families, some of them lost the possibility to work. By the end of the year 2022, some of them got back to Ukraine, not being able to properly integrate into the new society and adopt to a new reality.

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Those who have left in asylum are children not being able to see their fathers, women not being able to see their husbands, pupils not being able to quickly learn a new language and properly study at school, young women not being able to find a job notwithstanding the competition of local residents.

How many families are going to be reunited if ever? How many children are going to get an education? What are the consequences of not being able to integrate into foreign society? Will those people ever overcome post-traumatic syndrome and come back home? While there is an enormous obvious damage done, there is also an enormously large, slowly smouldering invisible damage.