"They're cramming us in like sardines." Residents of the Primorsky village where the school was destroyed demanded a new one be built. They were supported by veterans of the war with Ukraine.
Assembly hall at the school the village of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye, which is 20 km away Vladivostok, collapsed At the end of May. A couple of days earlier, an elementary school graduation ceremony was held here, attended by 160 children and their parents. Residents claim that a rehearsal for first-grade students was taking place in the assembly hall a few hours before the collapse.
A month and a half after the emergency, the village residents published A video message stated that the issue of building a new school has not been resolved: officials are simply proposing to transfer 1347 students to an overcrowded school in a neighboring village.
“They cram [children] in like sardines into a barrel, forgetting and spitting on even the slightest norms,” — the appeal notes.
Students, members of the local veterans' council, and two graduates currently serving in the war with Ukraine contacted officials. According to one of the soldiers, he graduated from the school in 2012, and even then, the school had promised to complete construction of the new school in 2014. Another war veteran graduated in 2017, when the promise of a new building had been pushed back to 2020:
"It's 2024 now, and it still hasn't happened. The school is destroyed, our children have nowhere to go, and we're fighting for a peaceful sky above their heads."
Residents emphasize that they have been waiting for a new school for 37 years. Construction began several years ago, but was put on hold for unknown reasons.
Meanwhile, the governor Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako He pledged Open a sniper training center near the village, where instructors "with combat experience" will impart knowledge to "young men." 850 hectares of land will be allocated for the new facility, and construction funds will come from federal and regional budgets.
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