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There are approximately 4.2 million students in Ukraine, with about 641,000 of them currently staying abroad.

Ukraine’s Education and Science Minister Serhiy Shkarlet said this during a nationwide telethon.

“Approximately, there are 4.2 million participants in the educational process. According to our estimates, 641,000 [students] stay abroad today. But there is a certain trend, because at the beginning of May there were 671,000 children [abroad], today there are 641,000. That is, 30,000 children have already returned to studies,” Shkarlet said.