2023-08-18 16:33:43
The heartbreaking side of the Russian-Ukrainian war has also appeared in schools: while Russian students will learn how to operate drones and clean weapons in the next school year, Ukrainian students will learn how to navigate minefields. In the coming school year, Russian schools will practice handling aerial drones and close combat, and Ukrainian children will take a safety course to learn how to navigate insidious landmines. The online course, announced by the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, will be a mandatory part of the curriculum: “Through education, we need to impart useful knowledge and skills to students. Unfortunately, knowledge of mine safety will be important in Ukraine for a long time,” added Minister of Education Oksen Lisovy. The course, developed in collaboration with UNICEF, includes interactive cartoons, games and lessons on how to avoid landmines. Students will meet Patron, the Ukrainian mine-detecting dog that became famous during the first weeks of the Russian invasion. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznykov said the children face a tough future, as landmine removal and “cleanup projects” could take decades and cost billions of dollars. Meanwhile, Russian students will return to militarized classrooms next school year. In some schools, it was already announced last March that experimental courses on the use of weapons and close combat would be launched. According to Vladimir Konstantinov, the president of the Crimean parliament, preschoolers and schoolchildren have already participated in the trainings and “showed great interest in the course”. Students in grades 10 and 11 will learn to operate combat drones and take part in sniper training. According to some intelligence, in Russia, all this is not necessarily to educate children, but to “cultivate a culture of militarized patriotism.”
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