At a meeting with students in Mykolaiv, Zelenskyi said when face-to-face education would be resumed

In order to fully restore the educational network in Mykolaiv, the region needs strengthening of air defense.

The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, stated this while answering the questions of Mykolaiv students.

One of the students of the city's universities asked the president when the reconstruction of the buildings of the shipbuilding and pedagogical universities damaged as a result of Russian aggression will begin. In response to this, Volodymyr Zelenskyi stated that the first priority is the security issue, because Mykolaiv is still under the threat of shelling.

«I am pleased that your first question is about the reconstruction of your universities. This means that you are not going anywhere. You are going to be here, to study, for this attitude of yours, I would like to thank your mentors, teachers, parents and you for your personality. I will say frankly, reconstruction has begun at many facilities where arrivals are minimized. Mykolayiv is still under threat,» the president said.

Currently, Ukraine expects help from Western partners in strengthening air defense. Then, when the south will be protected from possible shelling from the Russian Federation, it will be possible to restore a number of buildings and the educational process in the Mykolaiv region.

«We are working to provide air defense fundamentally. We are going this way. Today we talked about it with the ambassadors, with the head of the regional state administration, we have agreements with our partners to strongly strengthen air defense in the south. It doesn't come as soon as we expected, but nevertheless, it will all come. When vocational education and training in the Mykolayiv region is strong, I think we will be able to restore important universities and the educational network, and not only that. Therefore, soon,» said Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

As you know, schoolchildren in Mykolaiv still study online. Although the government, with the help of donors and the state, is actively setting up shelters in educational institutions, which sometimes causes indignation among the townspeople.

Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych explained that the refusal of children to go to school is a guarantee of their personal safety, because Mykolaiv is still in the zone of possible ballistic damage from the Russian Federation. At the same time, he emphasizes the importance of preparing shelters and resuming education in schools when the Armed Forces move the front line.

At the same time, in front-line Ochakiv, which is still in the zone of damage of the enemy's anti-aircraft missile system, a mixed form of training is in effect.

Currently, 57 educational institutions have been allowed to work offline in the Mykolayiv region. Most of them are schools of Voznesensk and Pervomaisk districts. In addition, 94 schools work mixed, that is, children study offline in a certain sequence, for example, one week after another. In addition, 277 educational institutions work online.

Later, Vitalii Kim explained that the decision on the offline operation of city schools will be made by the Office of the President and the Ministry of Education.

According to the monitoring of the Department of Education of the Mykolaiv City Council, 65% of schoolchildren want to study full-time.

For the beginning of the academic year, the Department of Education of the City Council announces tenders for placement in shelter schools in an offline format. Yes, the shelter in school No. 23 will be repaired for 2.2 million hryvnias, and in Lyceum No. 58 for 2.6 million hryvnias.

At the same time, the publication «Ukrainian Pravda» together with the savED fund, as part of the «To school again» campaign , announced a fundraiser for the construction of a shelter for the Mykolaiv Lyceum No. 55, which in the new academic year should become a key school in the city district.

Read also the NikVesti article : «Threats and challenges before the beginning of the school year: will children return to their desks in Mykolaiv».