With Russian troops on the offensive, Ukraine's second-largest city is taking the drastic step of moving classrooms for primary and secondary education underground.
With Russian troops on the offensive, Ukraine's second-largest city is taking the drastic step of moving classrooms for primary and secondary education underground.Maksym Timchenko, 7, raises his hand while his teacher, Liudmyla Demchenko, addresses the classroom in the school inside a subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine.Maksym Timchenko, 7, raises his hand while his teacher, Liudmyla Demchenko, addresses the classroom in the school inside a subway station in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
"He would shout 'Mama, mama! The house is shaking!'" she says, describing her son's reactions to explosions."Another time, we were on the street, and he heard shelling, and he stood right next to me and said, 'Mama, it's a missile! Let's be together!'" His teacher, Liudmyla Demchenko, often rides the bus with him and the other second-graders. She says sometimes the children are stressed until they reach the subway stop. She reminds them that there is no way a Russian bomb can hurt them down there."This relaxes them," she says."You can see it in their eyes."
Pasenov tries to talk over the noise, saying this has been a challenge to build in Kharkiv's"current reality."Yevhen Pasenov, Kharkiv's deputy director for housing and communal services, checks in on a construction site for an underground school being built.Yevhen Pasenov, Kharkiv's deputy director for housing and communal services, checks in on a construction site for an underground school being built.
"Our biggest challenge is to preserve our city and not let Russia destroy it," he says."But it's true that our children — they are losing a normal life, no matter what we do."Kharkiv wants to build eight more underground schools by 2026, a project that will cost $12 million. Terekhov, the mayor, says he's trying to raise money through donations and working closely with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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