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"They wrote 'Russians and Ukrainians are brothers' and at the same time they robbed the school ... they ruined computers, they took out hard drives, they took away laptops, printers, they left nothing at the school! It's barbarism and hypocrisy," he said.
At the same time, another note left in the school said: "Be fair and honest with each other, give a helping hand to everyone who needs it. We hope we will be friends! Become doctors, engineers, teachers – those who bring peace!" Former Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky even shared a picture of one of the notes, saying he was "touched" by its message.In Novyi Bykiv, a village in the Chernihiv region east of Kyiv, principal Natalia Vovk also found a number of notes written on blackboards, many of them calling for peace and friendship between the Ukrainian and Russian people.The Novobykivsky General Secondary Education School was hit hard during the fighting.
"There are many passages in the school: You can enter from one side and exit from the other side and they were very comfortable with it. They even had a dining room there," she added. An employee of the school, who wished to remain anonymous because of safety fears, said tripwire mines were found on the school's premises after the Russians withdrew from the area in late March.
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