The Distance school Optima School plans to open online-offline education hubs in Ukraine and abroad, its founder Roberts Vaišļa said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

"Now our goal is to open mixed offline-online education hubs in Ukraine and elsewhere, where children will be able to study not only remotely, but also in person. Additional classes, clubs, and so on will be introduced there - so that it is interesting," Vaišļa said.

He noted that Optima planned to open an offline space for education last year, having built the first blended learning school in Ukraine. However, according to him, there is an ongoing legal dispute over the land on which the school was planned to be built.

"The school purchased a plot of land for construction, and now there is a court case. And we do not know what will happen to this project. As a citizen of another country, I do not quite understand the arguments with which government agencies suspended our work," Vaišļa added.

In turn, Optima School Director Olha Bilodid said that the school would open an educational hub in Kyiv.

"Let it not be an Optima space, and it will be significantly smaller, but still the idea will be implemented, and such a space will be launched in Kyiv," Bilodid said.

According to her, courses aimed at the practical component will be implemented in the hubs.

"If it is studying a language, literature, then these will be classes in journalism, public speaking, if it is chemistry and physics - these are laboratories. If it is, for example, a foreign language - these are discussion clubs. That is, we want to give more practice to our children," Bilodid explained.

Optima School was created and received a license in 2015. Now the school has 20,000 students.