Children from Gymnasium No. 6 head to a basement set up with classrooms during an air alert in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sept. 3, 2024. The city is building a dozen subterranean schools designed to be radiation- and bomb-proof. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Ukrainian front-line school system goes underground to protect against bombs and radiation
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child’s life against the Russian weapons within striking distance. Most rain death in an instant: the drones, the ballistic missiles, the glide bombs, the artillery shells. But Russian soldiers control another weapon they have never deployed, with […]
NOV. 1, 2024
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