
In a classroom in western Ukraine, a group of teenagers are thinking about their futures.
Seventeen-year-old Kira Yukhymenko had always planned to go to university in her home country, but in between sitting her final exams this month, she has been dreaming of leaving to study abroad.
“The war has helped us understand who we are,” she said during a discussion in an English lesson at her school, Lyceum 88, in Lviv. “It has broadened our horizons and also made us more independent.”
