More than 1,000 schools destroyed in Ukraine since war began-UNICEF


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  • Tuesday, 29 Aug 2023

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a building of a school destroyed by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kherson, Ukraine May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Ivan Antypenko

GENEVA (Reuters) -More than 1,300 schools have been totally destroyed in government-held areas of Ukraine since Russia's 2022 invasion and others have been badly damaged, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF said on Tuesday.

Persistent attacks mean that only about a third of school-age children there are attending classes fully in person and many are forgetting what they have already learned, it said.

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