The education of children both within and outside Ukraine has been disrupted for
several years. Hundreds of thousands had already been internally displaced since 2014
as a result of the conflict in the eastern regions and Crimea, while the COVID-19
pandemic brought periods of extended school closures, a pivot to online learning and
other major disruptions. Since the start of the full-scale war in February 2022, a
considerable part of Ukraine’s child population has been forced to flee to other
countries, or is newly displaced inside Ukraine, affecting over 5 million children.2 This
makes for a uniquely complex range of challenges with regard to access to education
for children and youth from Ukraine.