KYIV: New School Year in Ukraine Dozens of educational facilities in another city in the war-torn country, starting Thursday KharkivRussians have been damaged by the shelling, a British charity said.
UK based Information Resilience Center (CIR), a non-governmental organization, said it has verified 41 institutions that have been “partially or completely destroyed” in the city under “almost permanent” shelling since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 went.
Located only 50 kilometers (30 mi) from the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv managed to thwart the efforts of Moscow’s forces to capture the city, which had a population of about 1.4 million inhabitants before the war.
Officials say it has been heavily bombed throughout the conflict and hundreds of people have been killed.
The CIR said in a report that the shelling of educational facilities was “targeted rather than a by-product of indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure”.
The report said that “a boarding school for visually impaired students, a 218-year-old university library, a university training pool used by Olympic athletes, and a nearly 100-year-old vocational college” were among the institutions targeted.
The shelling blocked “safe access to special equipment for children with disabilities, endangered books that had previously survived”. second World Warshattered Olympic dreams, and disrupted teaching in colleges that have been in operation for generations”, the report said.
Ukrainian officials said 2,199 educational institutions were damaged as a result of the bombing and shelling, of which 225 were completely destroyed.
Half of the 23,000 schools surveyed by Ministry of Education – About 51 per cent – are equipped with the necessary bunker facilities to start offline classes.
Without whom classes will be taught online.
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said last month that all schools in the city would start the new academic year online due to the constant shelling.
“Thousands of students in Kharkiv are currently denied safe access to education, technical and specialized equipment and vocational training, with no end in sight,” the CIR report said.
UK based Information Resilience Center (CIR), a non-governmental organization, said it has verified 41 institutions that have been “partially or completely destroyed” in the city under “almost permanent” shelling since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24 went.
Located only 50 kilometers (30 mi) from the Russian border in northeastern Ukraine, Kharkiv managed to thwart the efforts of Moscow’s forces to capture the city, which had a population of about 1.4 million inhabitants before the war.
Officials say it has been heavily bombed throughout the conflict and hundreds of people have been killed.
The CIR said in a report that the shelling of educational facilities was “targeted rather than a by-product of indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure”.
The report said that “a boarding school for visually impaired students, a 218-year-old university library, a university training pool used by Olympic athletes, and a nearly 100-year-old vocational college” were among the institutions targeted.
The shelling blocked “safe access to special equipment for children with disabilities, endangered books that had previously survived”. second World Warshattered Olympic dreams, and disrupted teaching in colleges that have been in operation for generations”, the report said.
Ukrainian officials said 2,199 educational institutions were damaged as a result of the bombing and shelling, of which 225 were completely destroyed.
Half of the 23,000 schools surveyed by Ministry of Education – About 51 per cent – are equipped with the necessary bunker facilities to start offline classes.
Without whom classes will be taught online.
Kharkiv Mayor Igor Terekhov said last month that all schools in the city would start the new academic year online due to the constant shelling.
“Thousands of students in Kharkiv are currently denied safe access to education, technical and specialized equipment and vocational training, with no end in sight,” the CIR report said.