Dozens of schools hit in Ukraine second biggest city: NGO

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The UK-based Centre for Information Resilience (CIR), a non-governmental organisation, said it verified 41 institutions that have been 'partially or completely destroyed' in the city. Read more at straitstimes.com.

KYIV - The new school year in Ukraine start on Thursday but dozens of educational facilities in the war-torn country's second biggest city, Kharkiv, have been damaged by Russian shelling, a British charity said.

Located in northeastern Ukraine just 50 kilometres from the Russian border, Kharkiv managed to repel efforts by Moscow's forces to take the city, which had a population of some 1.4 million residents before the war.and hundreds of people have been killed, officials say. The report said"a boarding school for visually impaired students, a 218-year-old university library, a university training pool used by Olympic athletes, and an almost 100-year-old vocational college" were among the institutions targeted.

Ukrainian authorities said 2,199 educational institutions had been damaged as a result of bombing and shelling, with 225 of them completely destroyed.

 

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