First class for students in Russia: “How to avoid danger from NATO”

The Kremlin today has said that students in Russia have been given a virtual teaching unit called “why the liberation mission in Ukraine is necessary

This classes were broadcast on TV across the country at noon according to Moscow's time, writes Sky News, followed Periscope.

Children learned about the “risk that it represents NATO to our country”, according to the Russian Education Ministry.

Television teaching also taught children that “why Russia rose to the defense of civilians in the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk”.

Vladimir Putin recognised these two regions as independent just before it started what he calls a peacekeeping mission.

A statement said students were taught to distinguish lies from truth at the time of great information, photographs and videos that are being circulated on the Internet today”. /Sky/Perscope