In Photos: The End of the School Year in Russia and Ukraine
As students around the world celebrate their graduation from high school, this year's graduation season looks markedly different in Russia than it does in neighboring Ukraine.
While graduates in Russia's two largest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, enjoyed lavish celebrations, many graduates in Ukraine have seen their schools destroyed in Russia's four-month invasion of their country.
Here's a closer look:
While graduates in Russia's two largest cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg, enjoyed lavish celebrations, many graduates in Ukraine have seen their schools destroyed in Russia's four-month invasion of their country.
Here's a closer look:
The Rossiya brig sails along the Neva River in St. Petersburg during the 2022 Scarlet Sails Graduation Festival, an annual event to celebrate school leavers.
Lev Fedoseyev / TASS
The Rossiya brig sails along the Neva River in St. Petersburg during the 2022 Scarlet Sails Graduation Festival, an annual event to celebrate school leavers.
Peter Kovalev / TASS
The Rossiya brig sails along the Neva River in St. Petersburg during the Scarlet Sails, an annual event to celebrate high school graduates.
Valentin Yegorshin / TASS
A destroyed school in the village of Bilogorivka not far from the Luhansk region city of Lysychansk.
Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP
A school destroyed by shelling in the village of Smolyanynove, east of the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk.
Alexander Reka / TASS
A graduation party at school No. 1409 in Moscow.
Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency
Moscow graduates celebrate in Gorky Park.
Andrei Nikerichev / Moskva News Agency
Moscow graduates celebrate in Gorky Park.
Andrei Nikerichev / Moskva News Agency
Moscow graduates celebrate in Gorky Park.
Andrei Nikerichev / Moskva News Agency
Servicemen walk near a damaged school in Kramatorsk, in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
FADEL SENNA / AFP
A school destroyed in a Russian air strike in Kharkiv.
Sergey BOBOK / AFP
