1,385 Ukrainian children suffered from russian aggression - Prosecutor General's Office
Since the beginning of russia's full-scale invasion, 347 children have been announced missing, and 461 minors have died at the aggressor's hands.
Rubryka reports this, citing the Prosecutor General's Office.
According to its information of the morning of February 19, at least 1385 children suffered from russian aggresion.
Juvenile prosecutors state the official number of dead children is 461.
The number of victims in the war increased – 924 minors who received injuries of various degrees of severity.
Juvenile prosecutors emphasize that these numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
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Children were most affected by russian attacks in:
- the Donetsk region – 445,
- the Kharkiv region– 272,
- the Kyiv region– 123,
- the Mykolaiv region– 83,
- the Chernihiv region– 68,
- the Luhansk region– 66,
- the Kherson region– 87,
- the Zaporizhzhia region– 84,
- the Dnipropetrovsk region– 64.
The latest discovered facts of crimes against children :
- On February 17, a 16-year-old boy was wounded due to enemy shelling in Bakhmut, the Donetsk region.
As it was reported, 3,126 educational institutions were damaged due to bombing and shelling by the russian armed forces, 338 of them were completely destroyed.
In addition, juvenile prosecutors report that they have already found 9,808 children. The prosecutor's office considers 347 minors to be missing.
The department emphasized that 16,207 children were deported to russia and the so-called republics, of which only 307 minors were returned home.
To remind, Children of war is a platform where you can report and find all information about children who suffered from russia's war against Ukraine.
The Prosecutor General's Office notes that the information on a war crime against a child can be provided through a single evidence hub: warcrimes.gov.ua and by phone: +380961004438, +380683235856.
