Teachers in parts of recently-occupied Ukraine say they were beaten and forced to destroy textbooks.
Head teacher Lidiya Tilna says she was detained and beaten for refusing to teach a Russian curriculum
Standing proudly amongst a sea of Ukrainian textbooks is head teacher Liliya Sirous. She says she was given a list of more than 2,200 books and told to destroy them all. But instead, she hid them. Replaced with a new curriculum of Russian history, literature, and language, for six months Liliya's secret library remained untouched.But now, gazing back upon her treasure trove of thousands of books, neatly stacked and tied up with ribbons, she starts to cry.
As the shelling continued overhead, she created a syllabus of online lessons. When she had access to the internet, she would distribute her work to teachers scattered all over Ukraine and Europe. She says a bag was put over her head and then she was placed in solitary confinement for five days. "My soul ached," says Lidiya. "I thought: 'No-one knows where I am.'"
The BBC asked the Russian authorities to comment on alleged threats to parents, but they did not respond.