‘No way I could work for the Russians’: the Ukrainian teachers resisting occupation

“Ukraine has abandoned us and isn’t coming back, and now the Russians are making us offers. If we don’t accept, they’ll send new people from Russia to run the school who won’t have any attachment to it. It’s better that we stay here and try to take care of it,” he told the assembled staff, as recalled by Halyna, the school’s longstanding deputy headteacher. She said: “About one-third of the teache

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9/18 In an attempt to improve school attendance, the occupation authorities have threatened parents that their children could be sent to orphanages if they do not sign up for the newly Russified school.”