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The €2.75 million solar-powered school was built in 2016, two years after Russia annexed Crimea.
According to Ukrainian online media Euromaidan Press, Russia destroyed a school donated by Finland in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.
On Saturday, the English-language news website Euromaidan Press published a video produced by Kherson authorities showing heavily damaged buildings.
The energy-efficient school, with solar panels on its roof, was built in 2016, two years after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula southeast of Kherson.
Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mikkanen (NCP) attended the inauguration of the building in September of the same year. He is now the Minister of Environment.
A Finnish government press release at the time noted that the Kherson region had “seen a large influx of refugees from eastern Ukraine and Crimea following the Ukrainian crisis.”
The school was reportedly built with funds from the Finnish Development Cooperation and the project was implemented by the Nordic Environmental Finance Company (Nefco) and Finnish modular construction company Elemenco.
The Finnish government said eight years ago: “Since the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict in 2014, Finland has been providing support to Ukraine (totaling €24 million), including humanitarian and development cooperation aid and expertise. The school project, with a total value of €2.75 million, is Finland’s largest single aid in Ukraine.”
Finland has provided Kyiv with around 2.2 billion euros in defence aid since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as well as around 38 million euros in humanitarian aid as of the end of last year. Most of the aid has been channelled through the United Nations, the Red Cross and the World Food Programme (WFP).
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