News that Ukrainian schoolchildren are unfortunately being forced to attend school underground [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-schools-sumy-bobryk-children-russia-invasion-b2818203.html] due to Russian attacks, brings to mind former President Poroshenko's words from November 2014, as reported by stopfake.org:

[https://www.stopfake.org/en/lies-petro-poroshenko-promised-that-children-from-donbas-would-be-sitting-in-cellars/]

And we win together by means of peace! Because we have jobs, and they have not. We have pensions, and they have not. We have support of children and pensioners, they have not. Our children would go to kindergartens and schools, theirs would be sitting in cellars. Because they do not know anything how to do! That’s how we are going to win this war. Because wars are won in minds, and not on the combat fields! They do not know this, but I know. And I have your support, I need it very much in order we win this war without perished Ukrainians, without perished inhabitants of Odesa.

Stopfake claimed it was lies that Porshenko Promised that Children from Donbas would be Sitting in Cellars as reported by Russian media:

It should be pointed out that Poroshenko speaks about the present situation in Donbas, not about situation possible in future. He describes it using the present tense, not the future one used by Russian journalists in their interpretation of his words.

But this is also a lie.

'Would' is not the present tense in English. It is either the past of 'will' or used in one of a number of other possibilities including the future conditional - the unstated condition here clearly being if the civil war in the Donbass continues. In this case, it's a weaker form of 'will', primarily because it is conditional.

But in the end Poroshenko was right, there would be children sitting in cellars, just not the ones he expected as a result of his war 'won in minds'.