American actor Leonardo DiCaprio donated funds to the Elena Zelenskaya Foundation, from where they will be sent to help Ukrainian children affected by the war, the press service of the charitable organization reports..

The stories of several children who are helped by the Zelenska Foundation:.

Vika from the Rodny family was diagnosed with a mental disorder. Together with seven brothers and sisters, she had to survive the occupation of Kherson, and then evacuate under the muzzles of tanks and constant shelling.

Eight inmates of the Oleshko family-type orphanage have Russian shelling destroyed their homes, and the father of the family defends Ukraine on the front line.

The Khanadeev family left their home in Donetsk almost nine years ago because of the fighting. Now they live as migrants in the Kyiv region, raising their three-year-old daughter Violetta.

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“The Foundation supports all family-type orphanages in Ukraine, where children are brought up in a real family atmosphere. We coordinate our efforts with the state so that Ukraine does not know orphanhood. Together we give children a chance to have a fulfilling childhood with access to education, medicine and welfare,” the organization said..

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, more than 1,379 children have already suffered as a result of a full-scale war in Ukraine. 460 children died and more than 919 were injured of varying severity.