'I Can't Forgive': Chernihiv Headteacher on Two 15-Year-Old Students Killed in Russian Strike
A Channel 4 News report broadcast on November 11 visited School Number One in Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, where headteacher Olha Shelest said she cannot bring herself to forgive the attack that killed two of her students.
On October 29, a Russian Banderol cruise missile struck the centre of Chernihiv as two of the school's students, 15-year-old Yana Peshkova and Maria Mozhova, were walking past a bakery and a military clothing store. The two girls, inseparable best friends, were killed.
The Chernihiv Regional Military Administration said 37 people sought medical assistance after the strike, including five children, and eight people were hospitalised. Homes, businesses, educational institutions and vehicles in the city centre were damaged, and the head of the regional police called the attack an act of terrorism.
Almost two weeks later, three of the school's classes are studying crowded together in the school's bomb shelter. Shelest told the reporter the girls were only 15, with their whole lives ahead of them, and somebody simply decided to take that away.
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(Source: Channel 4 News)
Source: Channel 4 News
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Photo: 图：切尔尼戈夫市地标圣三一修道院。照片 CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The Trinity Monastery, a landmark of Chernihiv. CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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