‘Like someone’s building a dacha’ Russian kindergartens’ request for donated construction materials to help the war effort leaves parents baffled

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‘Like someone’s building a dacha’ Russian kindergartens’ request for donated construction materials to help the war effort leaves parents baffled

Kindergartens in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg have asked parents to donate construction materials for the purposes of the “special military operation” in Ukraine, according to the local news outlet E1 News.

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At a kindergarten in Yekaterinburg, parents were asked to bring building materials — spatulas, screwdrivers, lamps, sockets and wires — for participants in the war in Ukraine. This is not the first time that parents and children have been urged to chip in to meet the “needs of their own” — New Europe has repeatedly talked about the militarization of kindergartens and schools. Not only medical supplies and clothes were sent to the war, but also t…