On 31 August, the Heroes of Kruty Lviv Lyceum with enhanced military and physical training hosted a celebration to mark the start of the new academic year.
In 2024, 199 students from 23 regions of Ukraine were enrolled in the municipal institution of the Lviv Regional Council, the Kruty Heroes Lyceum. 10 lyceum students have parents who were killed in action, went missing, or are in captivity, and 9 students are internally displaced persons from Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, Kyiv regions and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. Almost 40% of lyceum students have parents who serve in the Armed Forces of Ukraine or defence units, and the vast majority are combatants.
This year’s graduation ceremony is special because it is the first time that girls have been admitted to the 10th grade, and appropriate living conditions have been created for them.
The ceremony was attended by deputies of the Lviv Regional Council Yuriy Radelytsky and Lyubomyr Zubach, government officials, military personnel, lyceum graduates, parents, teachers, chaplains and guests.
At the beginning of the event, the audience observed a minute of silence in memory of the lyceum graduates and all the fallen heroes in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
The lyceum’s head, Yuriy Husar, in his welcoming speech thanked the parents for the upbringing and choice of their children.
“It is a great honour and a great responsibility to be a lyceum student, but I am sure that you will become the best over the years. Not only your commanders and teachers, but also your families will be proud of you, because we have created the best conditions for acquiring knowledge and physical training.
This year, we are opening a new page in our lyceum – for the first time, the most beautiful and intelligent girls will study here, and I am sure they will become an example for others,” said Yuriy Husar.
The lyceum students were also greeted by Yuriy Radelytsky, a member of the regional council, who stressed that “wearing a military uniform today is very proud and respectful, but it also obliges each lyceum student to be the best, like the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”
MP Liubomyr Zubach emphasised that “even after Ukraine’s victory, the military profession will be in the first place in our country. We need to be strong and equipped so that no enemy will ever think of attacking our country again.”
Afterwards, the chevrons of the Kruty lyceum students were presented to them.
Alumni and friends of the lyceum – military personnel who have served at the front, in the trenches, and those who demonstrate their commitment to the oath by their own example – also gave the first lesson to the lyceum students.