When the WWII was over, our grandparents had to study together with much younger children, earning themselves the name ‘pererostki,’ or ‘overgrown.’
“I think it will be like my grandma,” said Maria Varenikova, a journalist living in Kyiv with her son Nazar, 11.
“Something will have to be figured out in Ukraine, given that for years children don’t have an education because of COVID, and now war.”¹