Russian aggression has killed 475 Ukrainian children, injured 1428
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, 475 Ukrainian children have been killed, 1,428 children have been injured, and 953 minors have received injuries of varying degrees of severity.
Russia's missile attack killed six children in the past day alone, Prosecutor's General Office reports.
Juvenile prosecutors emphasize these numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Russians have abducted 20,000 children to its territory, though the aggressor's side claims to have "evacuated" 700,000 minors from Ukrainian "shelling".
Children were most affected in:
- the Donetsk region – 452,
- the Kharkiv region – 275,
- the Kyiv region – 128,
- the Mykolaiv region – 88,
- the Chernihiv region – 69,
- the Luhansk region – 66,
- the Kherson region – 94,
- the Zaporizhzia region – 89,
- the Dnipropetrovsk region – 67.
The most recent hostilities against children:
- On April 28, as a result of the aggressor state's shelling of the civil infrastructure of the city of Uman, Cherkasy region, a rocket hit a 9-story residential building. The entrance to the high-rise building was completely destroyed. Among the dead were 4 children: girls aged 8 and 10 and boys aged 15 and 1.5 years.
- On April 29, a 14-year-old boy was wounded by enemy shelling in the Semeniv district of the Chernihiv region.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ihor Klymenko, said during the identification of the bodies, five children died in the high-rise building destroyed by the Russians in Uman, and not four, as was previously believed.
Prosecutor's General Office launched a "Children of war" platform which helps to track and find any information involving minor victims of Russia's war.
