Russian forces that took control of Mariupol have decided to scrap summer school vacations to prepare students for the Russian curriculum, a Ukrainian city official said Thursday.
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According to Petro Andriouchchenko, adviser to the mayor of this port where the last Ukrainian fighters have gone in recent days, “
the occupiers have announced the extension of the school year until September 1st.
»
"
Throughout the summer, the children will have lessons in Russian language and literature, Russian history and mathematics lessons in Russian
."
“
The main goal is de-Ukrainization and preparation for the start of the school year according to the Russian curriculum
,” he said.
Nine schools
However, he added that the Russian "
occupiers
" had so far failed to find enough teachers, "
only 53 teachers for nine schools
", according to him.
He did not specify how many students were affected.
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After nearly three months of siege which devastated this city, a pre-war stronghold of half a million inhabitants, the Russian forces obtained on May 20 that the fighters who were still resisting them in the immense Azovtsal steelworks lay down the weapons.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, some 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov regiment, which Moscow describes as “
Nazis
”, would have surrendered, figures not confirmed by Kiev.
