Russia has killed 500 children since start of full-scale war – Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office

Over 500 Ukrainian children have been killed since the start of the full-scale Russian war, the Prosecutor General's Office reports.

More than 1,597 children have also sustained injuries of varying degrees as a result of Russian attacks across the country.

The actual casualty rates are likely much higher as the Prosecutor General's Office is still working to establish what has occurred in areas with active hostilities, as well as recently liberated territories and those still under Russian occupation.

Donetsk region suffered the highest child casualty rates, with a total of 483 recorded since the full-scale war's outset.

At the same time, 298 casualties were recorded in the Kharkiv region, 129 in the Kyiv region, 118 in the Kherson region, 95 in the Mykolaiv region, 71 in the Chernihiv region, 67 in the Luhansk region, 97 in the Zaporizhzhia region and 94 in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

The most recent crime against Ukrainian children took place on August 11, when Russian troops launched a missile attack on the western Carpathian region. The strike killed an 8-year-old boy.

As of August 1, juvenile prosecutors say that 15,569 children have already been found during search operations in Ukraine. Over 1000 minors are considered missing.

The Office stressed that Russia, along with its backed occupied territories and Belarus, abducted over 19,000 children, of which only 386 minors are now home.

Russian sources claim authorities "evacuated" over 4,8 million Ukrainian citizens, including 700,000 children, dispersing them all over the state and its northern poor regions to lift the economy.