UKRAINE, KHARKIV OBLAST, Aug 29 — During three years of Russian full-scale invasion, 37 education workers from the Kharkiv region who joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine were killed, said Olha Demenko, the head of the education department in the Kharkiv region, to Gwara Media on August 28.

Earlier, the education department told Gwara’s journalists that 18 safe spaces for offline and online study will open on September 1 for over 15,000 children in Kharkiv.

Demenko noted that the killed educators, men and women, worked in schools and kindergartens before 2022. 

She also said that all educational institutions in Kharkiv are operating despite the destruction caused by Russian attacks. There are 184 schools in the city, 132 of which have suffered varying degrees of damage due to shelling. Of the 211 kindergartens, 112 have been damaged.

“We are not currently repairing many schools. We understand that the most urgent issue today is housing. Is there a need to repair a kindergarten if no children attend it? We first need to restore housing so that young parents can return. Then we will repair the kindergarten where children will study,” said Demenko during the briefing in the press centre of a local Kharkiv media, Nakypilo.

Over the past day, Russian forces attacked seven settlements in Kharkiv Oblast with 11 attack drones of different types, injuring six people.

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