Russia’s back-to-school plan for Ukraine

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🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Russia is paying teachers big bucks to teach a pro-Kremlin curriculum in Ukraine. It’s part of a campaign to formally annex occupied Ukraine into the Russian Federation. This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Russia started its war in Ukraine with the goal of seizing the capital Kiev.
0:05.3	That didn't work.
0:06.3	Russia couldn't pull it together militarily.
0:08.9	Now the war's main front is in Ukraine's south, in the cities of Zaporezhya and Harsan.
0:14.4	Russia wants to annex these areas and is fighting a two-pronged war there.
0:18.9	One prong is spooking the international community.
0:22.0	Zaporezhya has a nuclear power plant and someone is shelling it.
0:25.6	The United States continues to closely monitor reports.
0:29.3	Regarding the situation at the Zaporezhya facility, noting considerable concern regarding
0:34.1	the risk of a nuclear incident that would endanger the people of Ukraine, neighboring states
0:40.1	and the international community.
0:42.0	Ukraine blames Russia.
0:43.3	Russia blames Ukraine.
0:44.8	The other prong is settler and it crossed our radar a few weeks ago when we learned that
0:49.6	Russia is recruiting teachers to go work in southern Ukraine.
0:53.7	Why would they be doing that?
0:55.8	Coming up on today's explained.
1:07.0	It's today explained, I'm Noel King.
1:08.9	Leila Latipova is a reporter with the Moscow Times.
1:12.2	It's an independent English language newspaper.
1:15.2	Leila, when did you first notice that Russia was recruiting teachers to go to Ukraine and
1:19.5	teach there?
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