27 August 2022
The remains of the destroyed School Number 23 are seen at dusk after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Ukrainian children return to school without sharing memories from their holidays. They share stories of how they survived the first months of the war. For many children, last semester finished the day before Russia invaded Ukraine on the 24th of February.
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Oleksii Makarov, 6, runs past the building where his classroom was located as he plays in the courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.
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The librarian Raisa Krupchenko, 81, makes a pile of books as she tries to organize them among debris at the library of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack that occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. Krupchenko works on what remains from the school's library looking for textbooks that will be given to the children who remained in Kramatorsk for the beginning of the classes. "I think literature moves the world. American, Ukrainian and Russian, I think it (books/literature) is necessary", she completes.
— Photo by Leo Correa / AP Photo
The remains of the destroyed School Number 15 are seen after a Russian attack that occurred in April, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.
— Photo by Leo Correa / AP Photo
A man cycles through a courtyard of the destroyed School Number 23 after a Russian attack occurred in the second half of July, in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022.
— Photo by Leo Correa / AP Photo