At the start of the 2025–2026 school year, Russia plans to impose a full ban on Ukrainian language education in schools across the territories it occupies in Ukraine. In reality, occupation authorities have already spent years dismantling such instruction and punishing parents who tried to enroll their children in online Ukrainian classes. Journalists from BBC News Ukrainian detailed what the new policy involves and what the Russian authorities’ previous efforts to suppress Ukrainian language education have looked like. Meduza shares a translation of their report.