Schools in occupied Crimea will cut back on classes due to power and security issues

The school year in occupied Crimea is planned to be conducted under a so-called “special regime”: class periods will be shortened from 45 to 30 minutes, and the total time children spend at school will not exceed four hours.

This decision is due to problems with the power supply, air raid alerts, and fuel shortages. Some schools are operating without electricity, cutting back on the curriculum, and eliminating hot meals.

Teachers fear that under these conditions, it will be impossible to fully cover the school curriculum. Additional problems may arise due to the lack of school buses and fuel shortages.

Parents are also complaining about the significant increase in the cost of preparing their children for the school year—they estimate that the minimum set of school uniforms, a backpack, and school supplies costs about 25,000 rubles per child.

Source: Cemaat Media.

As a reminder, the complete isolation of the temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as the systematic deprivation of fuel and electricity for Russian troops, could force the Kremlin to come to the negotiating table or begin withdrawing its army. 

Trump may not be well-versed in geography, but he should at least have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of international law.