Residents of Melitopol threaten teachers – mayor

In the temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, Russian occupiers came with searches of teachers and took away their gadgets. So, the invaders check whether they work online with children and whether they conduct lessons according to the Ukrainian educational program. This was announced on Sunday, February 5, on the Telegram channel of the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov.

He noted that the Russians were trying to force Ukrainian teachers to teach the children according to the Russian program, but most of the teachers refused.

“Out of 22 schools today, Russians want 10 to function somehow. First, there are no students willing to go to these schools, and second, there are not enough teachers,” he said.

According to the mayor, there are currently 2,900 teachers in the city, less than 300 have agreed to cooperate with the enemy. He emphasized that mainly technical workers of educational institutions agreed to cooperate with the enemy.

“The teachers hardly agreed. Not even a school director, a kindergarten director agreed to cooperate with the enemy. Therefore, today there is no educational space, but there is Russian propaganda. They are forcing our children to sing the Russian anthem, in kindergartens to draw letters to some Russian soldiers” said Fedorov.

As Melitopol’s mayor asserted, the occupiers are threatening teachers, including deportation, if they don’t immediately start working on Russian programs.

It should be noted that “Kadyrovtsy” in the temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, raped a Russian propagandist from the NTV channel, and also beat a cameraman.

It was also reported that 800 policemen arrived from the Rostov region and Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Federation to the temporarily occupied Ukrainian Melitopol.