The zReportage of the week #869: 'Genocide of Learning' by CAROL GUZY of ZUMA Press Wire. A somber start to the school year began in Ukraine on September 1st. In a genocide of culture and learning, over 2000 educational institutions and 500 cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling according to the Ukraine Defense Ministry. Now the curriculum includes instructions on emergency measures and all buildings are required to have bomb shelters. Ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools. The absence of children's laughter leaves a surreal silence. Libraries are decimated. Sports trophies litter floors. A ghostly mural of a basketball player watches over a gym turned to ash. At one vocational school canisters of film negatives lie soaked in the water firefighters used to douse flames. Ironically, they hold images of Russian leaders being studied in that class. The principal of Kharkiv Specialized School #62 wipes away dirt from a mural created by student dancers that form the word 'Peace' in Russian. His elementary school serves as a shelter for elderly babushkas. Svetlana Kremenskaya, 75, declared, 'Putin is the second Hitler'. In their new normal, residents play volleyball amid the ruins as life returns while bombs still fall. When children would usually run gleefully through halls on the last day before summer vacation, a mortar attack obliterated a school in Kharkiv. The body of a woman lies on a staircase frozen in a macabre still life at the moment of death, just days after returning from the safety of evacuation. For civilians in Ukraine, daily life is a frontline. WELCOME TO Ukraine : Unbroken by 4 time Pulitzer Winter CAROL GUZY in-depth coverage all year long of this human tragedy.
© Launched December 27, 2022: The zReportage of the week #869: 'Genocide of Learning' by CAROL GUZY of ZUMA Press Wire. A somber start to the school year began in Ukraine on September 1st. In a genocide of culture and learning, over 2000 educational institutions and 500 cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling according to the Ukraine Defense Ministry. Now the curriculum includes instructions on emergency measures and all buildings are required to have bomb shelters. Ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools. The absence of children's laughter leaves a surreal silence. Libraries are decimated. Sports trophies litter floors. A ghostly mural of a basketball player watches over a gym turned to ash. At one vocational school canisters of film negatives lie soaked in the water firefighters used to douse flames. Ironically, they hold images of Russian leaders being studied in that class. The principal of Kharkiv Specialized School #62 wipes away dirt from a mural created by student dancers that form the word 'Peace' in Russian. His elementary school serves as a shelter for elderly babushkas. Svetlana Kremenskaya, 75, declared, 'Putin is the second Hitler'. In their new normal, residents play volleyball amid the ruins as life returns while bombs still fall. When children would usually run gleefully through halls on the last day before summer vacation, a mortar attack obliterated a school in Kharkiv. The body of a woman lies on a staircase frozen in a macabre still life at the moment of death, just days after returning from the safety of evacuation. For civilians in Ukraine, daily life is a frontline. WELCOME TO Ukraine : Unbroken by 4 time Pulitzer Winter CAROL GUZY in-depth coverage all year long of this human tragedy.
Cleaning 'wars remnants' from a green leather couch. A school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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A woman was killed and several injured during Russian shelling at a school in the city of Kharkiv. It was believed she had just returned from evacuation and was sheltering in the school as Russian forces continue bombardment of the city in an apparent terror campaign even though Ukrainian forces have pushed them back to the outskirts.
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Life goes on as people play volleyball in the school yard infant of the rocket destroyed school building in Kharkiv.
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'War's Tutorial', a person walks down a dark corridor in a heavily damaged school, hit by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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Bombed Buildings of a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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Broken doors to the library at a school destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, where ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools.
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At one vocational school canisters of film negatives lie soaked in the water firefighters used to douse flames after Russian attacks destroyed the buildings. Ironically, they hold images of Russian leaders being studied in that class.
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At one vocational school canisters of film negatives lie soaked in the water firefighters used to douse flames after Russian attacks destroyed the buildings. Ironically, they hold images of Russian leaders being studied in that class.
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A bloody cross lays on the ground after a woman was killed and several injured during Russian shelling at a school in the city of Kharkiv. It was believed she had just returned from evacuation and was sheltering in the school as Russian forces continue bombardment of the city in an apparent terror campaign even though Ukrainian forces have pushed them back to the outskirts.
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A Ukrainian soldier walks in a stairwell of a destroyed school. Earlier a woman was killed and several injured during Russian shelling at the school in the city of Kharkiv.
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A Ukrainian soldier walks in classroom of a destroyed school. Earlier a woman was killed and several injured during Russian shelling at the school in the city of Kharkiv.
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Rubble filled classrooms at a school destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. In a genocide of culture and learning, over 2000 educational institutions and 500 cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling according to the Ukraine Defense Ministry.
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Melted light sockets after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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Desks and classroom is disarray after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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A portrait of President Zelensky hangs untouched on a wall of a shattered classroom in a metaphor of resilience. Libraries are decimated. Sports trophies litter floors.
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Desks and classroom is disarray after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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Desks and classroom is disarray after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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Burnt books litter the ground after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, When children would usually run gleefully through halls on the last day before summer vacation, a mortar attack obliterated a school in Kharkiv.
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Empty hallways at a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. The absence of children's laughter leaves a surreal silence.
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Trophies scattered on he ground at a school destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. Ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools.
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A ghostly mural of a basketball player watches over a gym turned to ash after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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A school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. A somber start to the school year began in Ukraine on September 1st. In a genocide of culture and learning, over 2000 educational institutions and 500 cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling according to the Defense Ministry.
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Ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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A students laptop and mouse covered in ash still sit on a desk, after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
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The damaged schoolyard after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. Ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools.
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Alexander Grigorevich Gryanik, 67 years old, principal of Kharkiv Ppecialized School #62 walks through the local high school, now in rubble from the shelling and wipes away dirt from a mural that created the word 'Peace' in Russian with dancers from the school in the tight knit community of Pyatikhatki, a neighborhood in Kharkiv.
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Alexander Grigorevich Gryanik, 67 years old, principal of Kharkiv Ppecialized School #62 walks through the local high school, now in rubble from the shelling and wipes away dirt from a mural that created the word 'Peace' in Russian with dancers from the school in the tight knit community of Pyatikhatki, a neighborhood in Kharkiv. 'At the peak of the shelling of Pyatikhatki in the elementary school, about 120 people were hiding in the basement. Now it's down to 30,' said the principal.
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In a genocide of culture and learning, over 2000 educational institutions and 500 cultural sites have been damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling according to the Defense Ministry. English teacher Irina Shevtsova, 6, stated, 'We are together in school, united and that's why we are safe. It's not so scary when you have your friends and colleagues beside you. And our principal is God.' Eight residents have perished during the brutal war.
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Melted Ukraine flags after a school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. Ordnance lay in empty hallways amid shrapnel-riddled walls, scorched books and melted teaching tools. For civilians in Ukraine, daily life is a frontline.
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A school is destroyed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv. For civilians in Ukraine, daily life is a frontline.
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