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In occupied Kherson, ‘the Russians were destroying all books in Ukrainian’

Tatyana, a school teacher in Kherson, southern Ukraine. © France 24

During the Russian occupation of Kherson, only one third of schools remained open in the southern Ukrainian city. Many teachers refused to work as all teaching had to be done in Russian. FRANCE 24’s reporters spoke to Tatyana, one of many teachers yearning to return to school, despite daily Russian strikes on their city.

Despite the Russian withdrawal from Kherson, the playgrounds remain empty in the southern Ukrainian city, where all 171 schools are closed. 

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