russian troops kill 450 children in Ukraine

Since the beginning of the full-scale armed aggression, the Russian army has killed 450 in Ukraine.

The press service of the Prosecutor General's Office said this in a Telegram post.

"As of the morning of December 17, more than 1,313 children were affected in Ukraine due to the Russian full-scale armed aggression. According to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 450 children were killed and more than 863 received injuries of various degrees of severity," the report says.

It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Most children were affected in Donetsk region – 428, Kharkiv region – 267, Kyiv region – 117, Mykolaiv region – 80, Zaporizhzhia region – 78, Kherson region – 74, Chernihiv region – 68, Luhansk region – 65, and Dnipropetrovsk region – 39.

On December 16, a one-and-a-half-year-old child was killed after an enemy missile hit a residential building in the city of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region. Four more children, aged between 3 and 10, were injured.

As reported, on Friday, December 16, Russia launched another massive missile attack on Ukraine.