Thousands of Children Out of School as Classrooms Shelled in Eastern Ukraine – UNICEF

by Press on February 7, 2017

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A fourth grade student, writing on the blackboard in a classroom lined up with sandbags to reinforce the windows and prevent them from shattering during the frequent mortar shellings in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. UNICEF Photo/Hetman

GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–7 February 2017 – With thousands of children forced out of school in eastern Ukraine due to last week’s surge in fighting, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its partners have strongly condemned the indiscriminate shelling of…