Ukrainian front-line school system goes underground to protect against bombs, radiation

FILE - Children from Gymnasium No. 6 head to a basement set up with classrooms during an air alert in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sept. 3, 2024. FILE - Builders inspect the construction of an underground version of School No. 88 in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Aug. 30, 2024. FILE - In this Sept. 2, 2022, photo, a woman distributes packs of iodine tablets to residents at a local school in case of a radiation leak in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

To be a parent in the Ukrainian front-line city of Zaporizhzhia means weighing your child's life against the Russian weapons within striking distance.