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[^2]\n\nUkrainian authorities state that approximately 2.2 million students will return to in-person schooling on September 1st, while an additional 750,000 will participate in hybrid learning. [^3]\n\nOn September 1, 2026, thousands of Ukrainian children marked the start of the school year in Kyiv despite Russia conducting aerial attacks for the sixth consecutive day. [^4]\n\nArtem Bidenko estimated the financial damage to books alone at two billion Ukrainian hryvnia, noting that publishers currently lack the funds to reprint the destroyed textbooks. [^5]\n\nAccording to Iryna Borzova, up to 800,000 children are likely to adopt a hybrid model, while about 200,000 students, mainly in front-line regions, will study completely remotely. [^6]\n\nIryna Borzova, a member of the Ukrainian parliament's Youth and Sport Committee, noted that the number of enrolled first-graders decreased by 10% compared to last year. [^7]\n\nNataliia Maievska, director of Lyceum No. 257 \"Syniozernyi\" in Kyiv, stated that the first-day ceremony was bittersweet because the experience of seven-year-old first-graders was tainted by the ongoing war. 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