Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University is the flagship of higher education in Ukraine, the initiator and leader of educational reforms, and an outpost of Ukrainianism in the extreme east of the country!
Currently, a bloody, large-scale war of Russia against the Ukrainian people continues on the territory of independent, sovereign Ukraine, which has not spared our institution of higher education. The university was again the first to suffer from the second Russian invasion, as the bombing of Starobilsk began at 5:00 am on February 24.
The buildings of the administrative center of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University in the city of Starobilsk are temporarily occupied by Russian terrorist groups, where the material and technical base has remained intact. Over the university buildings, the occupiers raised the flags of the LPR terrorist organization and the illegal educational structure Luhansk State Pedagogical University. The war took the lives of outstanding scientists and students of the institution of higher education. Teachers and most of the students were left without housing, and families broke up.
In general, since 2014, the university has suffered huge losses, as buildings in the cities of Luhansk, Rovenki, Kadiivka (Stakhanov), Shchastia, and Alushta were occupied; in Rubizhne, Kreminna, Lysychansk they were completely destroyed.
In order to continue full-time work, the management of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University was forced to leave the war zone. The university management center has been temporarily moved to the central part of Ukraine to the training bases of the structural units that have been located there since 2014. So, for the second time, the university team refused to work under the flag of the occupiers!
