Despite the departure of the Russian occupants, the playgrounds are empty in Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, where the 171 schools have closed.
Water cuts, power cuts… The Russians hit the city every day and target its energy infrastructure.
Without a connection, Tatyana, a school teacher, cannot give her lessons online.
“We are trying to find a solution to this problem with the parents of the children I teach… I really want to teach again and I will do everything to make it happen as soon as possible,” Tatyana told France 24. .
During the occupation, like many of her fellow teachers, she had refused to teach in Russian schools.
“A lot of times when the kids came out of these schools, we heard them shouting things like 'Russia is our country'… They started learning patriotic songs and the Russian national anthem, and all the Russian national symbols, it put us really angry that parents are sending their children to Russian schools. It's sad that they did that."
Tatyana, she chose to resist in her own way, by clandestinely giving lessons in Ukrainian.
In her office, she treasures everything she was able to save from her old school.
Even the hallway of her apartment is filled with books that she treasures.
"All these books are by Ukrainian authors. Fortunately, I took them, because the Russians were going to destroy all the books in the Ukrainian language," she concludes.
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