Andrii, 15, helped by his father, risked his life and sent the coordinates of the advance of Russian forces to the Ukrainian army during the first days of the war. The war in Ukraine, which has been raging for six months, has had a particularly brutal effect on children. Nearly 1,000 children have been killed or injured during the war, UNICEF estimates, and more than 5 million Ukrainian children both at home and as refugees abroad are in need of humanitarian assistance. “My mother was very scared at first,” Andrii told ABC News reporter Britt Clennett. “But now she’s proud that we did well, that we’re healthy and that we were able to help. 15-year-old Andrii Pokrasa talks to ABC News’ Britt Clennett. ABC News Andrii said they posted in a local village group that they had a drone and Andrii knew how to operate it. A man named Yuri Kasyanov from the civil defense forces responded to their post, Andriy told ABC News, adding that he “didn’t know I’m 15 years old.” Andrii was asked to use his drone to spy on Russian vehicles in Makariv, a village near his own village of Kolonschyna, on the outskirts of Kyiv. “There were fuel trucks, tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers,” he said. “I tracked them on a drone, they were in my photo. And then I opened the map tab on the drone and put a mark and the coordinates appeared there.” Andrii said he passed the coordinates to Kasyanov, who handed them over to Ukrainian artillery. The artillery decimated the column of Russian tanks within minutes. 15-year-old Andrii Pokrasa talks to ABC News’ Britt Clennett. ABC News They were close enough to an explosion related to the attack that they had to evacuate the area, he said. “Yuri organized a green corridor for us – an escort,” he said. “We passed this field on the Zhytomyr highway which was already liberated at that time.” Andrii said his friends didn’t believe him at first when he told his story of helping defeat Russian forces, but then they saw him on TV. “My friends are very happy that everything is done and I’m fine,” he said. “I had to help because I could.”