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The sound of a school bell echoes not through hallways, but through tunnels. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, childhood has moved underground.
Seventeen thousand children now descend flights of stairs each morning. Hand in hand. Step by step. Their classrooms are three floors down, shielded from the missiles above.
Anastasia Pochergina’s daughter walked into school for the first time. A first grader, in the deepest school in Northern Saltivka, a suburb scarred by strikes. “As a parent, I was desperate,” she said. “This is the safest place. We never expected it would be possible.”
The tradition of 1 September remains. Pupils arrive with flowers, gifts for teachers. Yet instead of sunlight and courtyards, they enter concrete chambers lit by artificial light. “We expected things to get better,” Pochergina said. “But not peace. We do not build illusions.”
Teachers hurry children through the doors. The youngest cling to older hands. In the classrooms, lessons begin as if nothing outside exists, art, numbers, games. Childhood is rehearsed, even in war.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov calls it survival through routine. Six metro stations have been remade as schools. Three more will open soon. “This one alone has 1,500 students,” he said. “The depth matters. That is what keeps them safe.”
For six-year-old Maria Yampolska, it was her first day of school. Asked how it compared to kindergarten, she answered with disarming honesty: “I never went. Because of the war.”
A powerful eruption at Japan’s Shinmoedake volcano sent an ash plume more than 3,000 metres high on Sunday morning, prompting safety warnings from authorities.
The UK is gearing up for Exercise Pegasus 2025, its largest pandemic readiness test since COVID-19. Running from September to November, this full-scale simulation will challenge the country's response to a fast-moving respiratory outbreak.
AnewZ has learned that India has once again blocked Azerbaijan’s application for full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, while Pakistan’s recent decision to consider diplomatic relations with Armenia has been coordinated with Baku as part of Azerbaijan’s peace agenda.
A Polish Air Force pilot was killed on Thursday when an F-16 fighter jet crashed during a training flight ahead of the 2025 Radom International Air Show.
Ukraine held farewell ceremonies in Lviv and Kyiv on Monday (September 1) for former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, who was shot dead in Lviv two days earlier.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that migration has brought “a great deal of benefit” to the country, amid nationwide anti-immigration rallies over the weekend.
Tens of thousands of people staged a silent march in Belgrade on Monday (September 1) to honour the 16 victims of a collapsed roof at a renovated railway station, while calling for snap elections aimed at unseating President Aleksandar Vucic and his ruling SNS party.
Torrential rain lashed parts of northern India on Monday (September 1), flooding roads and bringing traffic to a standstill in major urban centres including Gurugram and the capital, New Delhi.
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