🔺Russia’s troops burning school textbooks and torturing teachers in Ukraine, says education minister
Russian soldiers are burning books and kidnapping and torturing teachers as they try to stamp out underground Ukrainian schooling in occupied territory, Ukraine’s education minister has told The Times.
A staged referendum on annexation to the Russian Federation is due to take place in occupied areas of the southern Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions on September 11, but efforts are already under way to impose a Russian curriculum on Ukrainian children that erases any mention of their country’s history and identity.
“They are making arrests in Kherson region for teaching the Ukrainian school curriculum and burning Ukrainian books. It’s barbaric, in the 21st century,” Serhiy Shkarlet, minister for education and science, said.
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Russian soldiers are burning books and kidnapping and torturing teachers as they try to stamp out underground Ukrainian schooling in occupied territory, Ukraine’s education minister has told The Times.
A staged referendum on annexation to the Russian Federation is due to take place in occupied areas of the southern Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions on September 11, but efforts are already under way to impose a Russian curriculum on Ukrainian children that erases any mention of their country’s history and identity.
“They are making arrests in Kherson region for teaching the Ukrainian school curriculum and burning Ukrainian books. It’s barbaric, in the 21st century,” Serhiy Shkarlet, minister for education and science, said.
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