Mark Osborn, a teacher from south London, recently met activists from Ukraine’s Free Trade Union of Education and Science Workers (VPONU), an affiliate of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions (KVPU), in Lviv and Kyiv. On 22 August, in western Ukraine, I met the Lviv Committee of VPONU. Nataliia Babych told me that Ukrainian education workers needed solidarity from British unions: “We want to survive. We want to be free and live in an independent Ukraine. We want to live in a democratic state.”
Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine prevents over two million Ukrainian students from attending school as normal, with only a third of school-age children returning full time to school on Sept. 1.
At about 12:00 on 1 September, Russian forces attacked the city of Seredyna-Buda in Shostka district, Sumy Oblast. Source: Office of the Prosecutor General on Telegram Details: As a result of the attack, four local residents received shrapnel wounds.
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