As of April 15, more than 553 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation – 198 children were killed and 355 received injuries of varying severity.
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported this.
Children suffered the most in regions such as Donetsk – 117, Kyiv – 105, Kharkiv – 81, Chernihiv – 54, Mykolaiv – 40, Kherson – 38, Luhansk – 36, Zaporizhzhia – 23, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.
These data are not conclusive, as inspection of sites of active hostilities and liberated settlements and receiving information on the temporarily occupied territories are underway.
- During the recording of criminal offenses committed in the city of Trostianets, Sumy region, it was established that a 14-year-old boy died as a result of shelling by the Russian military on March 21.
- On April 14, two children aged 9 and 11 were injured in a shelling of the village of Oleksandrivka in the Kharkiv region.
1018 educational institutions were damaged by bombing and shelling by the Russian armed forces, 98 of them were destroyed.
