The war in Ukraine and its consequences to Romania and the rest of the world

Student: Eduard MIHES, Xth A grade; Coordinating teacher: Alina POPA; School: “Samuil Vulcan” National College

Why has eastern Ukraine returned to full-scale conflict?

                Fighting started in April 2014 and raged for months until Ukraine and the separatists came to a deal on 5 September to halt the violence and free prisoners. But the ceasefire never held entirely. Although the intensity of the conflict subsided, the clashes never really ended and both sides used the relative lull to build up their forces.

            The battle raged for the control of the ruined airport at Donetsk, with Russian-backed rebels trying to seize a strategic and symbolic asset.

            A new rebel push began with the start of the year, culminating in the capture of the airport's main terminal on 22 January.

THE DISASTERS OF WAR

By Juan Gabriel Fernández García, Óscar Leira Díaz, Pablo Loureiro Cela, Kevin Moreno Bello, Saúl Sedes Ricoy, Daniel Seoane López and Rubén Suárez Díaz. With the collaboration of History teacher Victoria Diehl.
4º DC - IES de Catabois - Ferrol (SPAIN) 

Cover of the first edition (1863) of The Disasters of War

In 1808 the Spanish rose up against the Napoleonic troops stationed in Spain because of the Fontainebleau Treaty. That’s the way the so called Spanish War of Independence, as it would later be named in History, started. It would keep the Peninsula bleeding for  six years  (till 1814). The students in 4th year (curricular diversification) have studied this terrible episode of our past, terrifying ourselves before the hard images that the amazing painter Francisco de Goya captured in his series of etchings ‘The Disasters of War’ or  in two capital oil paintings in the history of art such as The Second of May 1808: The Charge of the Mamelukes or The Third of May 1808.