Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion in Ukraine, 111 institutions of general secondary education have been completely destroyed. Another 830 schools were damaged as a result of shelling by the occupiers. More than two million Ukrainian children were forced to leave Ukraine. About 1,300 Ukrainian schools are located in territories occupied by Russian troops. Only 30 percent of Ukrainian schoolchildren will be able to physically attend school this year. Zaborona has collected a selection of photos that show what Ukrainian schools look like on the 190th day of the war and what the day of knowledge was like in 2022.
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Ukrainian military personnel sit near a school in Kramatorsk destroyed by Russian missiles on July 21, 2022. Ukrainian officials said they had found at least three bodies. Photo: Alex Chan Tsz Yuk / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
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A school in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region, damaged as a result of a Russian attack, on July 25, 2022. Photo: Metin Aktas / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Volunteers install new windows in school No. 35 in Chernihiv. The windows were blown out by the blast wave from Russian rocket and artillery fire. Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
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An explosion funnel after the Russian army bombed a school in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, on July 26, 2022. Photo: Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Firefighters work at a heavily damaged specialized school after an overnight Russian missile attack in Kharkiv, July 30, 2022. Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
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Principal Mykhailo Alyokhin shows the bomb shelter of a private school in Kyiv, August 25, 2022. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV / AFP via Getty Images
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A classroom of a damaged school in the southern Ukrainian village of Mykolaiv region, August 31, 2022 Photo: DIMITAR DILKOFF / AFP via Getty Images
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Chairs and benches in a bomb shelter prepared for schoolchildren at a public school in Kyiv, on August 29, 2022. Photo: GENYA SAVILOV / AFP via Getty Images
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Children and their parents celebrate the first day of school in Lviv, September 1, 2022. For security reasons, only students of the 1st, 5th, and 11th grades were present at the solemn part. Photo: Olena Znak / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
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Mykyta Tolichkin, a teacher of Ukrainian language and literature, conducts an online lesson in an empty classroom in Poltava, September 1, 2022. Photo: IGOR TKACHOV / AFP via Getty Images
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Students at a ceremony marking the beginning of the new school year in Odesa, September 1, 2022. Photo: OLEKSANDR GIMANOV / AFP via Getty Images
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The wall of school No. 134, which was destroyed by Russian shelling. Photo: Richard Wright / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
