Waiting for my Dad - Ukraine's children of the missing

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  Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Will Vernon and this is Assignment at a special summer camp in the Carpathian Mountains.

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  It's just after eight in the morning and the kids at the camp are being woken up by Ukrainian pop songs and they're emerging from their rooms quite bleary-eyed actually.

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  And the first activity of the morning is exercise and they've got a packed schedule for the day ahead.

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  We have a really busy programme because kids,

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  if they have five free minutes, they are just doing chaos.

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  You need only five minutes for that and they are doing some crazy stuff.

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  This is a camp for the children of Ukraine's missing.

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  Fifty of them, aged between seven and seventeen, with one thing in common.

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  They all have a parent who's disappeared in the war.

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