I'll be giving a primer on the Ukraine/Russia situation to my 7th and 8th graders (via Zoom) in a few minutes. We do current events on Fridays, and just last week, we started a series of conversations about how history affects them. This situation, though horrible and worrisome, does get my historian juices flowing, and the timing is good to get them thinking about some things.
Distressingly, most kids I talk to know essentially nothing about geography...they couldn't name a quarter of U.S. states on a map, much less find Ukraine...