153 children died in Russia's war against Ukraine, juvenile prosecutors report
Almost 400 children have been injured in Ukraine since the beginning of the armed invasion of the Russian Federation, 153 of them were killed and more than 245 were injured, according to juvenile prosecutors.
The Office of the Prosecutor General reported this with reference to juvenile prosecutors.
Work is underway to establish all data on child victims in places of active hostilities and in temporarily occupied territories. In the city of Mariupol, in some areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Luhansk regions, it is difficult to count all the dead and injured.
In Mariupol alone, on March 27, 210 children lost their lives.
According to the prosecutor's office, the most affected areas where children died were Kyiv (73), Donetsk (65), Kharkiv (53), Chernihiv (43), Mykolaiv (30), Luhansk (31), Zaporizhzhia (22), Kherson (29), capital (16), Sumy (16), Zhytomyr (15) region.
In addition, 859 educational institutions were damaged by bombing and shelling. 83 of them were completely destroyed. The worst situation is in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Kyiv regions, and the city of Kyiv.