00:00Very many deepfakes, propaganda is very big.
00:05This is 14-year-old Irina. She lives in a Russian-occupied town in Ukraine's Kherson region. We've changed her
00:11name and voice to protect her identity. She tells us about videos she's shown at the Russian school she's forced
00:17to go to.
00:19Доволі часто видно, що це штучний інтелект, але вони напевно думають, що ми як не те покоління не розуміємо, що
00:25це.
00:26Кажуть і що Крим був їхній, і що взагалі там українців не було. Просто віддали цю територію, бо там була
00:32якась вигода. Але це не була Україна ні в якому вигляді і так далі.
00:37We're getting this rare access to occupied Ukraine through Irina's teacher, Svetlana.
00:42Irina uses VPN to still attend online classes with her Ukrainian teacher, despite the risk to her safety.
00:48And challenges like a lack of electricity, water, and often internet.
00:53Навчатися через це не стільки фізично, як морально складно.
00:57По-перше, це ж моя батьківщина, це моя рідна мова. Я не можу від цього відмовитися.
01:05Ірина's teacher Svetlana fled the Russian occupation,
01:08but still connects with her students living there to give them access to the Ukrainian language and education.
01:14І діти хочуть, бачите, 12 класів закінчити повноцінно.
01:19Як ми можемо зупинитися?
01:22Many more teachers who fled occupied territories are using COVID-era online learning tools
01:26to still reach children in occupied Ukraine, connecting them to their classmates in free Ukrainian cities and abroad.
01:34This mother and son recently fled Russian occupation in their hometown.
01:38We can't show their faces for the safety of their relatives still living there.
01:42After Russian forces took over, her son continued his Ukrainian schooling in secret.
01:48He was also forced to go to Russian school under threat.
01:58The mother told us disappearances of pro-Ukrainian residents were common, informants were everywhere,
02:06and it was difficult to trust even close family.
02:09Despite the risks, it was important for her that her son attend Ukrainian school.
02:29It's this hope for a brighter future that keeps Serena going too.
02:32It's not your home.
02:34It's not your home.
02:34But because your heart and heart are left left to be Ukrainian,
02:38it doesn't hurt you and gives you a chance to stay on the plow.
02:42It's not to forget, where you are, who you are,
02:45and because you are a Ukrainian, you are still on the territory of Ukraine,
02:49as if there was no one.
02:50and because you are the only one.
02:50I think we just came out to a place where you're now.
02:50We can't embrace that.
02:51You can't pay you to pay me.
02:51You can't pay me.
