Close
MyNorthwest
News
Opinion
Sports
Tools
Connect

It’s back to school in Ukraine — but far from normal

Students leave a shelter after an evacuation training during their first day of school at a public school in Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. The ongoing war remains the biggest challenge for the educational system of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Students walk together entering in their class during their first day of school at a public school in Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. The ongoing war remains the biggest challenge for the educational system of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Students leave a shelter after an evacuation training during their first day of school at a public school in Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. The ongoing war remains the biggest challenge for the educational system of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Students walk together entering in their class during their first day of school at a public school in Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. The ongoing war remains the biggest challenge for the educational system of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Students leave a shelter after an evacuation training during their first day of school at a public school in Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. The ongoing war remains the biggest challenge for the educational system of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Students walk together entering in their class during their first day of school at a public school in Irpin, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. The ongoing war remains the biggest challenge for the educational system of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) A man cycles through a courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Oleksii Makarov, 6, displays his books and scholar materials on his student desk, that he uses for online classes, as he stands with his father Rodion Makarov, 45, at their home in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. The School Number 23, the same that where his parents also studied, was destroyed after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Windows, broken by an explosion and protected with cardboard and wood, are photographed in a school reception at Mykhailo-Kotsyubynske's lyceum, which was bombed by Russian forces on the 4th of March, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) Student Karina Muzyka walks on the rubble of the Chernihiv School #21, which was bombed by Russian forces on the 3rd of March, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) The remains of the destroyed School Number 15 are seen after a Russian attack that occurred in April, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Youth play soccer on a field next to the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) The librarian Raisa Krupchenko, 81, makes a pile of books as she tries to organize them among debris at the library of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Krupchenko works on what remains from the school's library looking for textbooks that will be given to the children who remained in Kramatorsk for the beginning of the classes. "I think literature moves the world. American, Ukrainian and Russian, I think it (books/literature) is necessary", she completes. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) A drawing depicting a smiley sun decorates the entrance of a destroyed school among debris after Russian attacks that occurred in May, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Oleksii Makarov, 6, runs past the building where his classroom was located as he plays in the courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) The remains of the destroyed School Number 23 are seen at dusk after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) Children play outside their Chernihiv School #21, which was bombed by Russian forces on the 3rd of March, in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
It’s back to school in Ukraine — but far from normal