The first week of 2025 was marked by a series of russian crimes against Ukrainian higher education and Ukrainian educators.
On January 1st, a family of scientists, neurobiologist Ihor Zyma and biologist Olesia Sokur, were killed in a russian drone attack on Kyiv. On January 4th, russian troops attacked the buildings of Kherson State Agrarian and Economic University. The dormitory building was hit the hardest. In Chernihiv, a philologist and teacher Oleksiy Halyonka was killed by a fatal wound from an enemy missile fragment. On January 5th, the aggressor destroyed the building of Kherson State University with a direct artillery strike.
The enemy cynically continues to use education as a target. The lives of teachers and the work of universities are not objectives for enemy missiles.