KYIV: Five metres beneath a Kyiv classroom, headmaster Mykhaylo Aliokhin puts the finishing touches on the bunker where his students will spend much of their time once Ukraine's school term starts later this week. The study hall above is still littered with school bags abandoned since Feb 23 - the last day
Following Russia's invasion more than two million children left the country, while another three million were displaced internally between February and June, according to the UN children's agency UNICEF.
"It's not out of the realm of possibility that our enemy, who is very fond of symbolic dates, would take advantage of this one," said 26-year-old Aliokhin. A Ukrainian policeman inspects a crater near a school following an air strike on the town of Mykolaivka, Donetsk region on Aug 26, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Nationwide, half of the 23,000 schools surveyed by Ukraine's education ministry - about 51 per cent - are equipped with the bunker facilities necessary to begin classes offline. Those without will teach classes online.
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