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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Tuesday that the war in Ukraine has disrupted the education of more than five million children.
In a statement published on the official United Nations website, UNICEF called on the international community to intervene on this issue.
According to UNICEF, “the impact of 11 months of conflict only compounds the two years of learning lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic”. The UN organization also warned against the situation of children in eastern Ukraine, at war for eight years.
In this same context, Afshan Khan, UNICEF Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia underlined that “schools and early childhood education structures provide an essential sense of stability and security to children, and failure to learn could have lifelong consequences,” the UN argued.
Thousands of schools and other educational establishments were destroyed across the country during armed clashes. Since the outbreak of war, parents have avoided sending their children to school for security reasons, the UN reported.
Also according to UNICEF data, “1.9 million children had access to online courses. While 1.3 million children were enrolled in a combination of face-to-face and virtual lessons, except that since the recent attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, widespread blackouts have been recorded.
On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine, which provoked international anger and multiple reactions, as well as the imposition of unprecedented and most severe financial and economic sanctions against from Moscow.
Russia poses as a prerequisite, to put an end to its operation, the renunciation of Ukraine to its plans to join military entities and alliances, including NATO, and the adoption of a status of “neutrality total”, which kyiv considers to be an ”interference in its sovereignty”.
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