Magdeburg (dpa/sa) – Saxony-Anhalt has hired more Ukrainian teachers. A spokesman for the Ministry of Education said on Monday in Magdeburg that 191 teachers were employed at 123 school locations. They provided courses in the Ukrainian language for refugee schoolchildren. In addition, 61 teachers for German as a target language have now been hired to teach the Ukrainian children and young people primarily German. According to the ministry, around 5,560 Ukrainian children and young people have arrived at schools in Saxony-Anhalt so far.

According to the local authorities, a total of around 28,750 war refugees from Ukraine have so far been taken directly into the administrative districts and urban districts, according to statistics published by the Ministry of the Interior. Among them are about 6900 children of school age and almost 2800 children of kindergarten age.