School principal, secretary and 2 teachers killed in Sumy Oblast in drone attack
On 23 August, a Russian Shahed attack drone destroyed a school and killed four teachers in the town of Romny in Sumy Oblast.
As a result of the attack, Tetiana Prokopenko, the principal of secondary school No 8, was killed.
"It is painful to realise that her many plans and ideas have been left unfulfilled...
In our memory, Tetiana Ivanivna will forever remain a smiling, cheerful, incredibly beautiful, happy, reliable colleague and a true professional," said Viktoriia Zelenska, a colleague of the deceased.
School principal Tetiana Prokopenko
Another person killed by Russia was Oksana Solonynka, a deputy principal and primary school teacher. In the summer, she was enrolling first-graders and was supposed to be their classroom teacher, the They Were Killed by Russia memorial shows.
Deputy Principal Oksana Solonynka
The Russian Shahed drone took the lives of school secretary Oksana Kvasha and librarian and history teacher Ruslan Yatsura from the village of Lypove. Yatsura had been working at the school since 2007.
Secretary Oksana Kvasha
"The small but close-knit teaching staff made every effort to make the children feel comfortable and safe.
Just yesterday, the school was standing, it was alive, it was full of children's voices, because the 1st September [Knowledge Day and the first day of a school year in Ukraine – ed.] is special! We were preparing for the holiday, and no one imagined that it would turn into a tragedy..." wrote Ukrainian language and literature teacher Tetiana Lisnenko on the school's website.
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