The dismantling of a school destroyed by Russian shelling has begun in the Shyroke community of the Mykolaiv region This was reported by the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration It is noted that the dismantling of the educational institution is being carried out with the support of international partners and is the first step towards the construction of a new school children in the Shyroke community are studying in a temporary educational space The debris is being cleared and the area is being prepared for the construction of a modern school with the support of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) The report also notes that this process is an important step in the restoration of a full-fledged educational environment in the community stressed that despite the enemy's attempts to break the community and the number of children in school is growing but they have not succeeded and will not succeed people returning home and the number of children in school growing I am sure that even more families will return home» Read also the article «NikVesti» «Do not lose the building. Reconstruction of the Arkas gymnasium has begun in Mykolaiv». It is planned to restore the destroyed facade of the building by October 2025 The destroyed main building of a school in the village of Shyroke is to be dismantled and the school's gymnasium is to be restored This was reported in a comment to NikVesti by the Department of Education and Science of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration the surviving part of the school building has been repaired and a Digital Education Centre has been created where students in grades 1-4 and preschoolers study in a mixed form «The main building is severely damaged and is scheduled to be dismantled The gym is to be restored as it is needed for the primary school The community is negotiating with an international organisation to repair the gym: the roof and the community is waiting for a response,» said the RMA The project for the restoration of the gym is planned to be developed in 2025 it is currently advisable to maintain an elementary school with a preschool unit in this village most of the population has left due to damage to their homes and they are encouraged to return by the community,» the RMA added More than 300 schools in Mykolaiv region wanted to start full-time or blended learning in 2024 In Mykolaiv region, 57 schools were allowed to work offline Most of them are schools in Voznesenskyi and Pervomaiskyi districts meaning that children study offline in a certain order Another 277 educational institutions operate online The offline learning process has also been organised in the frontline town of Ochakiv, where a mixed form of education is in place According to the monitoring of the Mykolaiv City Council's Education Department, 65% of schoolchildren want to study full-time As of the beginning of 2025, Mykolaiv region was among the three regions with the most school shelters set up under the «School Offline programme». Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Tap to enable a layout that focuses on the article Print MYKOLAIV Ukraine — On the desolate battlefronts of southern and eastern Ukraine clay-like mud of late autumn is beginning to congeal into iciness As snow flurries and freezing temperatures set in the last thing this country’s leaders want is for the war’s front lines to harden in place as well Ukrainian officials and Western allies have taken to calling it the weaponization of winter. In cities, towns and villages, authorities are setting up thousands of insulated tents known as “invincibility points” where people can warm themselves, drink hot tea and charge their phones and other devices. In urban high-rise housing blocks, residents band together to leave care packages in elevators — water, diapers, snacks — for anyone caught by an unexpected outage. Ukraine expects the punishing onslaught to continue. World & Nation The Times’ Carolyn Cole is on the ground in Ukraine as residents prepare for winter’s cold amid Russian missile strikes against the nation’s infrastructure unfortunately,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address this week Acknowledging what has become the dual-front nature of the war — the military’s need for sophisticated armaments and the burgeoning needs of an electricity-starved populace — Ukraine’s defense minister succinctly summed up his country’s wish list “Patriots and transformers,” he told reporters on the sidelines of this week’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Romania referring to sophisticated missile-defense systems and devices that transfer energy from one electrical circuit to another which are in short supply as urgent power-grid repairs continue around the clock The funeral for Denis Metyolkin was held at the Sts after he was killed in action on the eastern front Metyolkin worked as a postal carrier before returning to the Ukrainian military (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) U.S and NATO officials this week seemed to be addressing that wish list As a supplement to the nearly $40 billion in weapons and military equipment the West is shipping to Ukraine announced a $53-million package of “energy aid,” including the crucial transformers as well as generators and spare parts for electrical systems “That’s going to get to Ukraine not in a matter of months Blinken said Wednesday at the Romania conference will have to make a shift in the type of weapons it’s providing to include more sophisticated air-defense systems Ukraine and its backers face “a process that keeps repeating itself Stuff gets replaced; it gets destroyed; it gets replaced again.” He termed Russia’s campaign to “freeze and starve” the people of Ukraine “barbaric.” a senior Defense Department official said the Pentagon is considering adding long-range Patriot surface-to-air missile systems to a future tranche of military aid to Ukraine Ukraine’s “needs have changed over time as the war has evolved,” John F spokesman for the White House National Security Council “In the beginning we were talking about [shorter-range] Stingers and Javelin missiles and now we are at a point with these attacks on civilian infrastructure that air defense is a prime need We are prioritizing air-defense capabilities.” Ukraine is doing everything it can to counter the narrative — which has gained traction among some Western allies — that the conflict is at a military impasse from which the only exit is negotiation Zelensky’s government is walking a difficult line needing to appear to be open to an eventual negotiated settlement but also wanting to embark on any talks at a moment of maximum military advantages which Ukraine does not believe it has yet achieved After Ukraine’s recent gains in the south, the United States’ highest-ranking military official, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, suggested Kyiv should negotiate a settlement sooner rather than later, and before fighting reached a stalemate. President Biden and other senior U.S. officials swiftly pushed back on the idea. French President Emmanuel Macron, in Washington this week on a state visit, raised the possible strategy with Biden, according to European diplomats, but ultimately chose to back the U.S. position. “We will never urge the Ukrainians to make a compromise which will not be acceptable for them,” he said at a news conference with Biden on Thursday. “If we want a sustainable peace,” he added, “we have to respect the Ukrainians to decide the moment and the conditions in which they will negotiate about their territory and their future.” Zelensky has said he will negotiate only with the “next” president of Russia — that is to say, after Vladimir Putin is ousted. Despite harsh weather conditions in the field, or perhaps because of them, Western analysts and officials believe Ukrainian commanders will keep pushing during the cold-weather months to recapture more territory controlled by Russia, amounting to about one-fifth of the country. Some of those lands were seized during what Ukrainians consider the real start of this conflict, a separatist proxy war in Ukraine’s east that Russia fomented beginning in 2014. Yet more territory was lost after Putin launched a full-scale invasion Feb. 24. Of the latter lands, Ukraine has recaptured about half. Better-equipped and more disciplined Ukrainian forces will probably stand up well against ill-trained, poorly supplied Russian troops who quickly found themselves thrust onto the front lines after being mobilized, Western military assessments suggest. In a winter preview, British military intelligence said last month that “changes to daylight hours, temperature, and weather will present unique challenges” for both sides. The assessment said, though, that NATO-standard cold-weather gear provided to Ukrainian forces would help protect against hypothermia. Autumn rain, and resulting thick mud, has slowed the pace of battle, but freezing ground later in winter will again allow freer movement of heavy equipment — one reason Putin waited until February to invade. But the forecast is brutal in places such as Bakhmut, an eastern city that has been a vortex of carnage unleashed by Russian forces, including mercenaries from the notorious private Wagner group. The devastated landscape, riddled with tree stumps and water-filled shell holes, hauntingly evokes scenes of trench warfare in World War I. In the south, the Black Sea coast may now be a crucial springboard for Ukrainian forces. For months, Ukraine successfully defended the city of Mykolaiv, though deadly, near-constant missile attacks ravaged parts of it. The city of Kherson, now freed from an eight-month Russian occupation, has been under fierce Russian shelling from across the Dnieper River, where Moscow’s forces have been fortifying their defenses in anticipation of a renewed Ukrainian push. For Ukraine, even victories are clouded by suffering. Last month, authorities began evacuating civilians from recently recaptured areas of Kherson and Mykolaiv provinces, foreseeing that winter conditions will simply be too difficult due to lack of heat, power and water. Neither side gives a public accounting of its dead and wounded, although Western estimates suggest casualties on both sides number in the many tens of thousands. Ukraine’s military said that, by its reckoning, 500 Russian soldiers were killed in one 24-hour period this week. And every day across the country, intimate scenes of grief dot the conflict’s vast canvas. In a war in which not only the young but the middle-aged go off to fight, Yuriy Chernenko — killed on the eastern front two days before what would have been his 54th birthday — was mourned by classmates in Lviv, who remembered their kindergarten days together nearly half a century earlier. “He was so happy to be a grandfather; it brought him such joy,” said Iryna Krupchak, 53, who joined the solemn procession behind Chernenko’s coffin. “I curse those who stole his life from him.” King reported from Mykolaiv and Wilkinson from Washington. Laura King is a former reporter with the Los Angeles Times who primarily covered foreign affairs. She previously served as bureau chief in Jerusalem, Kabul and Cairo. Former staff writer Tracy Wilkinson covered foreign affairs from the Los Angeles Times’ Washington, D.C., bureau. Subscribe for unlimited access Site Map The relevant statement was made by Dnipropetrovsk Regional Military Administration Head Valentyn Reznichenko on Telegram “At midnight the enemy twice shelled the Shyroke Community with the Uragan MLRS,” Reznichenko wrote Russian projectiles dropped within the area between settlements A reminder that the Russian military had fired over 140 rockets at Dnipropetrovsk Region over 79 days since the Russian invasion started A total of 17 civilians were killed in Russia’s MLRS shelling of Dnipropetrovsk Region While citing and using any materials on the Internet links to the website ukrinform.net not lower than the first paragraph are mandatory citing the translated materials of foreign media outlets is possible only if there is a link to the website ukrinform.net and the website of a foreign media outlet Materials marked as "Advertisement" or with a disclaimer reading "The material has been posted in accordance with Part 3 of Article 9 of the Law of Ukraine "On Advertising" No 1996 and the Law of Ukraine "On the Media" No 2023 and on the basis of an agreement/invoice Online media entity; Media identifier - R40-01421 India handed over humanitarian aid to war-hit Ukraine a nation witnessing crisis ever since Russian invasion last year The aid was handed over to Ukrainian authorities by Indian Ambassador to the country Harsh Jain The Indian officials said the aid included sleeping bags Ambassador Harsh Jain handed over humanitarian aid comprising sleeping bags, blankets & tents to Shyroke Village Council & Zaporizhzhia Geriatric Boarding House in presence of H.E. Mr. Yuriy Malashko, Head of Zaporizhzhia state administration.@MEAIndia @MFA_Ukraine pic.twitter.com/a2usY2nl4t The official Twitter handle of the Indian Embassy to Ukraine posted: "Ambassador Harsh Jain handed over humanitarian aid comprising sleeping bags blankets & tents to Shyroke Village Council & Zaporizhzhia Geriatric Boarding House in presence of H.E the ninth round of Foreign Office Consultations between India and Ukraine was held when the two sides reviewed bilateral ties in their entirety and also exchanged perspectives on the ongoing conflict and peace efforts Ministry of External Affairs held the 9th round of India-Ukraine FOC on 13 July 2023 in Kyiv with his Ukrainian counterpart H.E First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine," read a statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs on July 14 "Global and multilateral issues of mutual interest were also on the agenda," read the statement Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine and discussed the ways to strengthen parliamentary cooperation between the two countries Chief of Staff to the President of Ukraine Verma also interacted with the Indian diaspora and Ukrainian academia and think tanks "The visit and consultations added to the continuing engagement with Ukraine," read the statement View Results We use cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website.