Ukraine's schools race to build bomb shelters before term starts


  • World
  • Monday, 29 Aug 2022

Workers replace windows blown out during a Russian artillery attack in a school in the town of Irpin Kyiv region Ukraine August 10 2022.  REUTERSGleb Garanich

Workers replace windows blown out during a Russian artillery attack in a school in the town of Irpin, Kyiv region, Ukraine August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

KYIV (Reuters) - Svitlana tears up thinking of the bombing that leveled her son Illia's school in Lysychansk, a city in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk now occupied by Russian forces, but she is determined to ensure the eighth-grader continues his studies.

"My son's school is not there anymore. It was bombed completely - and it can never be restored," she said, during a visit to Illia's new school in Irpin, near Kyiv, where workers are replacing windows blown out during a Russian artillery attack before school starts on Sept. 1.

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