The Ukrainian Materynka School in Warsaw

more than 150,000 Ukrainian students who have entered the Polish education system in six weeks, according to the Polish Minister of Education and Science and he's estimated that number could grow to and the country's education minister estimates that number will grow to 700,000 nationwide. That includes more than 10,000 in Warsaw's school system alone.

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Wed., March 30, 2022

Ukrainian refugees sit for a lecture on March 21, 2022, in an all-Ukrainian school. The school, which is run by Nataliya Kravets, has been open since 2014. However, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February the school's enrollment has swelled from 250 to more than 900 in kindergarten through 11th grade.

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Iryna Rud, standing, laughs with her class of Ukrainian students on March 21. More than 150,000 Ukrainian children have entered the Polish educational system since the war between Russia and Ukraine began in February.

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Yaryna Valkov and her two children Lukian, 10, and Solomiya, 7, fled from their home in Kiev on Feb. 24, 2022. Now her two children are integrating into the Polish school system and Valkov is trying to learn Polish.

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