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Footage released by the Mariupol City Council on April 15 shows heavy damage to a school that had opened on May 31, 2021, after a major reconstruction. The modernizing overhaul of Mariupol’s school No. 26 began in 2020 under a program championed by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The president received a tour of the new buildings during a visit to the city in October. On its opening day-, Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko described the school as “the epitome of great change in our city.” Reporting damage to the school on April 15, Mariupol City Council wrote: “For each of us, it will forever remain one of the best educational institutions in Mariupol and even the whole of Ukraine. Bright, modern, warm and friendly, like our city before the arrival of the Russian occupiers.” Credit: Mariupol City Council via Storyful