Children of War: Persecuting Blitz’s Echoes, While with Fear in Their Eyes, Ukraine’s Young People Are Taken Down in a Bomb Bunker to Hide from Vladimir Putin’s Air Raids
- It can be seen that students from primary schools in Ukraine were taken to a file in an underground bomb shelter
- Many of the children from school number one in the town of Druzhkivka had to be raised by adults
- Four metro stations in Kiev are also becoming shelters for air strikes as the capital prepares for violence
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These are heartbreaking scenes that we hoped we would never see again in Europe.
Cuddled next to each other on counted benches, with fear and apprehension in their eyes, these are the children from the Donetsk region, led to the exercises, until the war broke out in Ukraine.
In images reminiscent of Blitz, elementary school students were taken to a file in an underground bomb shelter as they prepared for an attack by Vladimir Putinforces of.
Too young to climb the shelter sills alone, many of the children from school number one in the town of Druzhkivka had to be raised by adults.
Cuddled next to each other on numbered benches, with fear and apprehension in their eyes, these are the children from the Donetsk region, led to the exercises until the war broke out in Ukraine
There they huddled, arms folded around their knees, waiting for their fate. These are scenes that are likely to become more frequent after yesterday’s full-scale invasion.
Aerial exercises at the school are usually held twice a year, according to the BBC, which filmed the footage. But there was an additional emergency exercise on Wednesday.
In Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city, children learned about bulletproof vests and explosives. They also practiced evacuation and first aid training, which defense specialist Alexander Shevchuk said would help prevent “child injury or, God forbid, death.”
He added: “We allow them to try on our uniforms, body armor and helmets. Show them what explosive objects can be so they can be aware of situations that may happen to them.
Four metro stations in Kiev are also becoming shelters for air strikes as the capital prepares for violence again.
In images reminiscent of Blitz, elementary school students were dropped into a file in an underground bomb shelter as they prepared for an attack by Vladimir Putin’s forces.
There they huddled, arms folded around their knees, waiting for their fate. These are scenes that are likely to become more frequent after yesterday’s full-scale invasion
Too young to climb the shelter sills alone, many of the children from school number one in the town of Druzhkivka had to be raised by adults
Four metro stations in Kiev are also becoming shelters for air strikes as the capital prepares for violence again
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