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Over 2,000 Ukrainian schools and kindergartens are under occupation

Monday, 5 December 2022, 17:34

More than 2,000 schools and kindergartens are currently under temporary Russian occupation.

This is the data as of 24 November, as stated in a report from the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine.

Educational establishments in Kherson Oblast are suffering the most from the occupiers, and those in Mykolaiv Oblast the least. 

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The numbers of schools in all the oblasts that are partially occupied are as follows: 

  • Kherson Oblast – 357;
  • Zaporizhzhia Oblast – 267; 
  • Luhansk Oblast – 252; 
  • Donetsk Oblast – 156; 
  • Kharkiv Oblast – 10; 
  • Mykolaiv Oblast – 2.

The numbers of pre-school educational institutions are: 

  • Kherson Oblast – 429;
  • Luhansk Oblast – 270; 
  • Zaporizhzhia Oblast – 211;
  • Donetsk Oblast – 163; 
  • Kharkiv Oblast – 9; 
  • Mykolaiv Oblast – 1.

The report produced by the Ministry of Education and Science also indicates that 174 pre-school educational institutions are still being used as shelters for internally displaced people.

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