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148 Ukrainian children have been killed by the Russian occupiers since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Russian terrorists have already killed 148 children during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Another 232 were injured. A total of 380 children suffered.

This was reported by the Prosecutor General’s Office.

This information is not final, as there is no possibility of conducting priority investigative actions, an inspection of areas of shelling and destruction in places of active hostilities and in the temporarily occupied territories. Particularly, in the city of Mariupol, in some areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv, and Luhansk regions.

According to the received data, children suffered the most in the following regions: 

  • Kyiv – 69, 
  • Donetsk – 57, 
  • Kharkiv – 53, 
  • Chernihiv – 41, 
  • Mykolaiv – 30, 
  • Luhansk – 30, 
  • Zaporizhzhia – 22, 
  • Kherson – 27, 
  • the city of Kyiv – 16, 
  • Sumy – 16, 
  • Zhytomyr – 15.

On March 10, 2022, in the Izium district of the Kharkiv region, a woman and a child died due to injuries from an airstrike inflicted by Russian servicemen. On March 30, their bodies were found under the rubble of an apartment building destroyed by shelling.

On March 12, 2022, a minor boy died as a result of the shelling of a children’s hospital in Mariupol. He was the brother of little gymnast Kateryna, who died a few days earlier.

On March 23, 2022, a 3-year-old child died from injuries received during the shelling of the Velyka Oleksandrivka district of the Kherson region.

On March 29, 2022, a 14-year-old teenager received a shrapnel wound in the village of Davydiv Brid, Beryslav district, Kherson region, due to shelling by Russian servicemen.

On March 30, 2022, two people were killed and five others, including a six-month-old child, were injured in a car run over intact ammunitions in the Chuhuiv district of the Kharkiv region.

On March 30, 2022, as a result of the shelling of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region, two children aged 2 and 7 were seriously injured.

797 educational institutions were damaged by bombing and shelling. 76 of them were completely destroyed.

The worst situation is in the Donetsk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Kherson, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv regions, and the city of Kyiv.