Odesa's chief education officer tells what will be built on the site of the dismantled kindergarten

Olena Buynevych, head of the Department of Education and Science of the Odesa City Council, explained that they will build a new kindergarten on the site of Kindergarten #283, which was damaged by a Russian air attack on February 19.

According to the official, nothing else but another kindergarten can be built on the site.

"According to experts, the panel building is dangerous and cannot be repaired. It must be demolished (I am attaching an excerpt from the letter received by the Department). At the same time, in the chats of residents of nearby houses, someone in the spring of 25 persistently wrote that everything would be destroyed, the land would be sold, and the kindergarten would be replaced by a commercial or residential building. The townspeople wrote all this under my posts. And there was a clear answer - it is impossible. There has been and will be a kindergarten here," wrote Olena Buynevych.

According to Olena Buynevych, in July, the city council approved a land management project prepared by the department that assigned the site of the kindergarten to kindergarten #283.

"Now the building is being dismantled. But there will be no residential buildings in its place. No supermarkets. This is the land of education. They will build a kindergarten on this site. Moreover, this area needs them," the official said.

The massive Russian shelling of a residential area of Odesa on February 19 caused large-scale interruptions in electricity and heat supply. 14 schools, 13 kindergartens and more than 500 residential buildings in a large neighborhood were left without electricity and heating. The city's hospitals, clinics and social infrastructure also sustained significant damage. In particular, a children's clinic and a kindergarten were damaged. The local authorities opened heating stations and "Points of Resilience" where people could keep warm, charge their phones and drink hot tea.

Кирило Бойко