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Images of the friendly Jack Russell terrier help create the "atmosphere of psychological and mental safety" Ukrainian children need, Lesya Yurchyshyn, a teacher from Kyiv, told the BBC's Ukrainecast podcast.

Svitlana, Lesya and Natasha live in the so-called gray zone, a buffer area between the Ukrainian and Russian positions on the Zaporizhzhia front in southern Ukraine.

In Moscow, people brought flowers to the statue of a famed Ukrainian writer, Lesya Ukrainka, which became a makeshift memorial to Ukrainian victims of Russia’s invasion following a missile strike on a residential building in Dnipro in January that killed at least 46 people.

In a park in Moscow, a steady trickle of people laid flowers at a statue of the Ukrainian poet Larysa Kosach-Kvitka, better known as Lesya Ukrainka, while two police officers watched from a parked squad car nearby.

In Moscow, at least three people laying flowers on a monument to prominent Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka were quickly detained by police officers, rights centre OVD-Info said.