The fact is that at the beginning of the war, in schools that were not in use, for example during the summer, there were cases where military personnel were stationed there. I personally know of a couple of cases where rockets hit those locations and Ukrainian soldiers were killed. Such news usually does not reach the public domain; I knew about it simply because I lived nearby. But probably since the summer of 2022, I haven't heard of any more cases of soldiers being stationed in schools. However, russians continue to strike schools out of habit and because their intelligence is poor.
https://video.nostr.build/69e8c11ab6bee3a514af2f9366776cf64bf2665ffe71cff3a2ce1ba1bc7eebde.mp4
Aftermath of yet another Russian missile strike on a highschool in Ukraine, close to Odesa.
I few months ago I talked to a father in Ukraine who had made the difficult decision to send his teenager to live in the EU. His teen's schooling was being too disrupted by the air raids. The father stayed behind – hopefully his military service means his child has a home to come back to.
Where they lived, people mostly ignore air raids because the chance of you actually being hit is pretty low. Especially during the day. Most of the drones get shot down, and there's not too many missiles.
But the problem is Russia _intentionally_ targets schools. You are a lot more likely to get hit if you are at a school. So the school system has to respond by rigorously evacuating everyone to bunkers, every single time. If they didn't, a lot more children would be dead. But other than the few places that have been able to build new schools in hardened bunkers, that inevitably disrupts lessons.
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Dude, Odesa is nowhere near front lines. There is zero excuse to hit that school.
Not to mention, every single shot fired by a Russian soldier is a criminal act to begin with. They have zero justification to attack Ukraine.
Russians are just evil. Don't make excuses for it.
agree. I didn't even think to justify russians, just trying to find a reason why they are so persistent in hitting schools. in my neighborhood in Kharkiv they bombed three schools even though they were completely empty
They're persistent in hitting schools because being able to educate your kids is an extremely important aspect of having a next generation. It you can get parents to move away, Ukraine as a nation dies.