KYIV — Ukrainian children began their second straight school year in wartime on Friday, some heading to new classrooms underground, others bracing to run to bomb shelters to take cover from Russian missiles and drones. Many, at home and abroad, stayed online for a fourth year, their education ravaged by Russia’s invasion and COVID-19. They fled the southern city of Kherson for Thessaloniki in April 2022, but her son Oleksii felt lost in a Greek school. She protested when her son said he wanted to join the Ukrainian military like his father, who is fighting in the east. “My children will attend online classes, although our school offered a bus to transfer children to the subway.”RELATED STORIESYour subscription could not be saved.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 02, 2023 01:31 UTC