Almost 4,500 Ukrainian schos work only in online mode – Shkarlet

Ukrainian Minister of Education Serh Shkarlet said this during a nationwide telethon, Ukrinform reports.

"Today, the educational process is carried out at 12,926 schos, of which 8,563 schos work in full-time or mixed modes. It is almost 70%. Other schos – 4,463 – work only in online mode. It depends on the security situation, the availability of bomb shelters, shelters that are currently set up in educational institutions," the minister said.

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According to him, for security reasons, pupils study only online in five regions: Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, Kharkiv, and Kherson.

As reported by Ukrinform, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, more than 2,600 educational institutions were damaged and 406 completely destroyed throughout Ukraine.