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'To the shelter, quickly!' Air raids reshape Kyiv school life
The private school says it spends more time underground than in classrooms as longer air raid alerts disrupt lessons and parents press for safer conditions.
Teachers scooped up the stragglers and ushered them into the shelter's entrance, while the cleaner scanned the playground, muttering as she checked that no one had been left behind.
"Everyone to the shelter, quickly, quickly, quickly!" said Valentyna Kurinna, director of the UMKA primary school in Kyiv's suburbs.
The risks weighed heavily on everyone's minds.
Just a few days earlier, a drone slammed into the same playground, narrowly missing a g…