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Anya Kamenetz

How a Ukrainian teacher helped students escape Russia's invasion, and still graduate

Russian soldiers left graffiti in the school in Borodyanka, a town outside of Ukraine's capital Kyiv. (Anya Kamenetz/NPR)

BORODYANKA, Ukraine — Viktoria Timoshenko's biology classroom is a surreal sight. She didn't recognize it at first, she says.

In March, while her small town of Borodyanka, an hour's drive northwest of Kyiv, was under attack, a Russian shell tore through the wall and ripped down the ceiling. Half of it droops down over a pile of bricks and dust. You can hear the traffic outside now, through the large hole where the windows used to be.

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