Human reindeer bring Christmas to front-line kids in Ukraine
by Noah Robertson
Dec 21, 2022
4 minutes
In a room heaped with presents, Dariia Achkasova reaches behind a pile of cardboard boxes and pulls out a stack of Christmas letters. They’re mostly just A4 sheets of paper decorated with drawings – a St. Nicholas here, a cat there. She flips through them, choosing some at random to read aloud.
“I’m three years old. I come from Bakhmut. Please give me a radio-controlled car as a present.”
“I’m already 12. I’m kind of a grown-up boy, but I want a stuffed toy because when I was a child they used to protect me.”
“Dear St. Nicholas, I really want peace to
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