Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – Teachers and pupils in Kyiv show extraordinary resilience in the face of war, despite the Russian invasion that wreaked havoc on children’s emotional well-being. One of nearly four million Ukrainian schoolchildren, 13-year-old Sofia Klochko, an eighth grader at School 61 in central Kyiv, is completing her third academic year in a row with her country at war, marked in the capital by stressful air alerts. “It was really difficult for me, but I adapted to it,” she says.
Exhausting school year of bombs and alerts ends in Ukraine
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