A school created specially for Ukranian children has been launched in Brussels to help kids from refugee families continue their learning interupted by the Russian invasion.

The war in Ukraine has forced thousands of children to study away from their homeland and not in their native Ukrainian language.

But the newly opened multilingual and free Vesna school, set up by Maria Smirnova, a woman living in the Belgian capital with Russian and Ukrainian roots, aims to help children transition and better integrate into Belgian society.

"We have mixed-age groups. So, children can be together from three to six, six to nine, nine to twelve and twelve to sixteen years-old," Smirnova told Euronews. 

"So, we have to adapt the learning according to this set up and also according to the state of the children. For some of them, they may need to go very slowly because they have been really traumatised."