A new academic year has begun, Ukrainian schoolchildren have begun their studies for the first time in the conditions of a full-scale war with the Russian invaders. In Kharkiv, small students sit at desks in a shelter - at the metro station.

An improvised school class appeared at the Sportyvna station.

"Today, Ukrainian children study in schools with bullet holes in the walls and sandbags in the windows, bomb shelters in the basements..."

2,400 schools in Ukraine were damaged during the full-scale war
269 of them were completely destroyed.
For many children in Ukraine, there will be no September 1st. They have nowhere to go.

Three-year-old Sashunya Semenyaga from Novoselivka, Chernihiv district, grew several years older during the 35 days he spent in the basement with his relatives. The war forced them to leave their home in the afternoon of February 24. In the morning, Sasha's parents still had time to fill up the car and buy several bags of groceries. "With my husband and two minor sons, we went to visit my sister in Voznesensk," says Nataliya Semenyaga. - The sister's house is a little away from the front line, there is a good and reliable burial ground there. Therefore, when we learned about the orcs' attack, we did not delay."