On Knowledge Day, September 1, all 420 schools in Kyiv started the school year, the vast majority of them in a full-time format. However, the Kyiv police received a report of an alleged bomb threat to all secondary schools.
On Friday, September 1, the start of the new school year, the police received a bomb threat at all secondary schools in Kyiv.
This was reported by the military administration of the capital.
“Police officers are working on their own, units of the State Emergency Service will be involved if necessary. As for the evacuation of children and teachers from the premises, the decision will be made additionally by the administration of educational institutions and the police,” the Kyiv City Military Administration said.
According to the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, all 420 schools opened in Kyiv on September 1, the vast majority of them in the full-time format. They attracted 240,000 students to study offline, which is 2.5 times more than last year. Among them are 25 thousand first-graders.
A total of 12,975 schools have started operating in Ukraine in various formats: in-person, remote, and mixed, said Education Minister Oksen Lisovyi. Almost four million students returned to school, both in classrooms and online.
