Russia has killed 494 children in Ukraine since beginning of full-scale war – prosecutor general’s office

Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 494 children have died.

The prosecutor general's office reported this on Telegram.

As of July 8, more than 1,545 children were affected by Russia's actions, of which about 1,050 received injuries of varying degrees of severity.

"These numbers are not final. Work is ongoing to establish them in the places of hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories," the Prosecutor General's Office notes.

Children were most affected in the Donetsk (472), Kharkiv (297), Kyiv (129), and Kherson (115) regions.

Children in the regions of Zaporizhzhia (91), Mykolaiv (89), Dnipropetrovsk (83), Chernihiv (71), and Luhansk (67) were also impacted.

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Serhiy Kyslytsia, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Nations, reported at the Security Council meeting on July 5 that the Russian military invasion affected nearly 7.5 million children in Ukraine.

This has resulted in almost two–thirds of them being displaced from their homes. Incidences of death, injury, and missing children have been reported, in addition to 13 cases of sexual violence against children registered by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine.

Further, there have been 3,450 educational institutions damaged in various regions, with 331 of them being destroyed, as well as 1,500 medical facilities, 185 of which have been completely demolished.