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More than 492,000 Ukrainian schoolchildren stay outside Ukraine – the Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet

Over 170,000 students have already returned home.

More than 492,000 Ukrainian schoolchildren stay outside Ukraine – the Minister of Education and Science Serhiy Shkarlet
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More than 492,000 Ukrainian schoolchildren are currently abroad, says the minister on air of UArazom national marathon.

“Today, there are 492 thousand 77 children left outside the customs territory of Ukraine. I feel some cautious optimism because over 170 thousand school-age children have already returned to Ukraine,” the minister said.

He recalled that in March there were 670,000 Ukrainian schoolchildren abroad.

The head of the Kyiv Regional Military-Civil Administration Oleksiy Kuleba said that 86% of educational institutions in the Kyiv region will start working in a full-time or mixed format.

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