Education Ministry: Every seventh school in Ukraine damaged since start of war

16:54, 26.08.2024 1 min read

Every seventh school in the country has been damaged since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science reports.

"Since the start of the full-scale invasion, every seventh school in Ukraine has been damaged by bombing. 3,798 educational institutions have been damaged, 365 of them have been destroyed," the Education Ministry said in its information materials for the educational conference in Kyiv on Monday.

It is noted that due to the shelling, 900,000 Ukrainian children are forced to study remotely, at least 1 million children are abroad, including 500,000 schoolchildren.