to see how ukrainian students will study in war conditions, the executive director of unicef, catherine russellt that forced to worry children, we had two years of covid which were difficult for children's education and now there is a war in ukraine but i am sure we have to focus on returning to education in the field of health care, we see that there is a problem with routine vaccination. we also want to help with this so that there are no outbreaks of diseases during the great war . m from the building, a body of explosive minutes gutted the windows and doors of the ward, the force of the impact was such that it twisted all the doors of the children's beds, they were all turned upside down, covered with glass, in the first three months of the war, women gave birth only in sheltered and until now, very little people come out here, because it is simply impossible to move the equipment every time during alarms, thanks to the help of unicef, i have everything necessary for full-time work, and on the floors and in the shelter , during the entire time in the bomb shelter, 288 babies were born, this

unicef executive director catherine russell came for the first time in the war. foundation has been actively helping children and parents since the beginning of large-scale hostilities. in zhytomyr region, for the first time, unicef implements a comprehensive program to support children. they joined the restoration of offline education. they repaired bomb shelters in schools. air bombs on march 4, it is no longer possible to restore it, it is only possible to build it from scratch, the director recalls that the material and technical base at the lyceum was exemplary, modern classes with interactive whiteboards, chemical the laboratory, everything under the rubble was purchased and they wanted to use it there under the rubble, so they remained, but today the chatkovo school was allocated this building of the former school for seven years. it was empty in the classrooms, the floor was rotten, the repairs began only on august 10, asphalt was laid at night , the windows were changed, shelters were set up for children in one and a half hours on sunday, the walls were

unicef executive director catherine russell came for the first time in war conditions. foundation has been actively helping children and parents since the beginning of large-scale hostilities. and in zhytomyr oblast, unicef is implementing a comprehensive children's support program joined the restoration of offline education, repaired bomb shelters in schools, provided the necessary equipment to the maternity and children's hospital of region a now they promise to help even before the heating season, before the biggest school in zhytomyr was in the very center of the city, now it is a dump of bricks, the russians dropped air bombs here on march 4, it is no longer possible to restore it, only build from scratch, the director recalls , the material and technical base in the lyceum was exemplary, modern classrooms with interactive whiteboards, a chemical laboratory everything under the rubble was purchased and they wanted to use it there under the rubble and so it remained, but today the chatkovo school was allocated this building of the former school for seven years. it w

for more, we're joined by unicef's executive director catherine russell, and she is joining us from just outside kyiv. thank you for joining us. we know nearly 1,000 children have been killed or injured since the war began. and education is important at anytime, but during a time of war, this war in particular, and given the trauma that children have suffered, how vital is it that they return to education today? >> as you said war is the worst enemy of children. it is terrible, it destabilizes th things. but education gives them some sense of normalcy. so we've seen it at this school where it is the first day back, kids are excited, but they also have a shelter where they have to go for protection. so it is a difficult situation of contrasts in a warzone. >> and great to see the scene behind you there and the obvious excitement that the children have returning to school today but we know that the scale of this task is immense. more than it 00 schools damaged, over 200 completely destroyed, and the risks of course of continued shelling is there. ukrainian children have been scattered far