PARIS, France — Indiana has about 3,800 schools — 1,915 public and 1,952 private. I tell you this for scale because more than 3,500 schools in Ukraine have been assaulted by Russian drones, missiles and cluster munitions since the war began in February 2022.

According to UNICEF, hundreds of Ukrainian children have been killed and thousands have been injured since February 2022. The numbers vary from about 500 killed to more than 2,000 injured. Another 2,193 children are missing. UNICEF has estimated that about 16 Ukrainian schoolchildren are killed or wounded every week. Classes are often interrupted by air raid sirens.

UNICEF added that the verified number of children killed or injured in Ukraine between this past March and May increased by more than 200% over the previous quarter, acco

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