In Ukraine's Lviv, war reaches even children's books

A copy of "Polinka”, a Ukrainian children’s book, which tells the the story of a girl and her grandfather, published just before the invasion and written by a man who is now on the front. Photo: AFP

In the basement of the bookshop she manages in western Ukraine, Romana Yaremyn shows hundreds of books stacked half way to the ceiling after they were evacuated from the country's war-torn east.

Packed together in white parcels, the titles rescued from Kharkiv fill up what was once the children's reading room.