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Avdiyivka, eastern Ukraine – Mariika Savkevich plays her family’s old upright piano with practiced skill and intensity, her music defying the war that is being fought just down the road.

The 11-year-old smiles at the applause she receives – she is proud of her performance. But she is also too traumatized to be left in a room by herself.

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