In the Carpathian region, buses for the ATO were taken away from schoolchildren, - media
Ivano-Frankivsk, October 23 (PolitNavigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – In the Carpathian region, students of 20 rural schools are forced to walk to school every day because their school buses were taken away for ATO fighters.
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Schoolchildren get to school as best they can: some by bicycle, some by car, or simply on foot.
“We had to change the daily routine, the school operating mode. Previously, our training began at 8 in the morning, but now we started training at 9,” the director of the Zborovskaya school, Maryana Lugovaya, told STB journalists.
Back in May, on orders from the regional leadership, the children's buses were confiscated. Then, fighters from the 5th "Prykarpattia" Battalion traveled east in two dozen school buses. However, almost nothing remained of the buses when they returned. The fighters themselves admitted that school buses were "disposable" transportation for them.
“I can’t call this regional military commissar anything other than a scoundrel, who in the entire Ivano-Frankivsk region found nothing else but to mobilize 21 school buses. He's a brute. He didn’t find anything better, he put them on school buses,” said military prosecutor Anatoly Matios. The military admits off camera: the decision to take the buses away from the children came “from above.”
As PolitNavigator reported, a similar situation developed in other regions of the country : war proved more important than children, their education, and their safety.
English version :: Read in English In the Carpathian region, schoolchildren had their buses taken away for the ATO, according to media reports.