• Ukrainian youth are paying the high price of war.

  • “Economic activity is very slow in Irpin and more generally throughout the country,” confirms Alona Shkrum, MP.

  • Nearly one million Ukrainian children and young people are currently refugees abroad, according to the Ukrainian authorities.

From our special correspondent in Ukraine

Vania and Sophia have decided to go home.

As soon as the Russians left Irpin, they fled the Belarusian border where they thought they could take refuge.

“In fact, it was untenable, the Russians came to our house every day, we were under surveillance,” says Vania.

But they have no work and little hope of finding any.

“Economic activity is very slow in Irpin and more generally throughout the country,” confirms Alona Shkrum, MP.

Vania and Sophia still hope to find an activity before winter, when the search for a job will be even more complicated according to them.

Ukrainian youth are paying the high price of war.

By sometimes engaging in combat, like Evguenin, 23, who came to Boutcha for the decoration of a friend.

Growing up in Donbass, he fled to kyiv and joined on February 24 and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in territorial defense and then the volunteer battalion.

“At the start, we took up arms, without any preparation.

Now it's more structured, we're trained and the fighting gives us the strength we need to win the war," he says, a little brashly, the coat of arms of Ukraine tattooed on his hand, before to be joined by a friend, wounded in battle.

The country is fighting to restore culture

Nearly one million Ukrainian children and young people are currently refugees abroad, according to the Ukrainian authorities whose last census dates from spring 2022. Online courses are available to them so as not to forget the Ukrainian, this language that has become, among others, an emblem of resistance to Russia.

This formerly bilingual country, where everyone naturally navigated from Russian to Ukrainian, is now fighting to give its culture its full place.

"Three hundred years ago of Russian repression of Ukrainian culture," said Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko.

We must compensate for this domination of Russian culture, but we remain tolerant and measured in this rebalancing, unlike the Russians, who destroy our monuments.

School curricula have been reviewed and certain works of Russian literature withdrawn in favor of Ukrainian works.

And in kyiv, cultural life continues, despite the 11 p.m. curfew.

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The students were able to return to school almost normally, as Galina Grygorenko, Deputy Minister of Culture points out, if we compare the current situation to that of the Covid in 2020. Diana, a 19-year-old young beautician from Zaporizhie, does not say nothing else.

However, she has spent the last few months between Turkey, Germany and now kyiv.

"But in beauty, there is never unemployment," she smiles.

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