In Ukraine, 459 children have already been victims of a full-scale Russian invasion. At least 914 more children were injured of varying severity.
This was announced today, January 22, by the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General.
These figures are not final. Work is underway to install them in places of warfare, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories, the department notes.
Children in the following regions suffered the most:
- Donetsk region – 438;
- Kharkiv region – 270;
- Kyiv region – 123;
- Kherson region – 85;
- Zaporozhye region – 84;
- Mykolaiv region – 83;
- Chernihiv region – 68;
- Lugansk region – 66;
- Dnepropetrovsk region – 63.
In particular, the following cases have been recorded:
- On January 20, due to enemy shelling of the city of Kherson, a 14-year-old boy was wounded;
- On January 20, in the village of Novaya Petrovka, Kherson region, a 15-year-old boy was injured as a result of a mine detonation;
- On January 21, as a result of shelling by the invaders of the city of Volchansk, Kharkiv region, a seven-year-old girl was injured;
- On January 21, on the road near the village of Lyubomirovka, Mykolaiv region, a mini civilian car exploded. The family that was in it with the baby was injured;
- On January 21, as a result of the shelling of the village of Studenok, Sumy region, by Russian troops, a 17-year-old boy was wounded.
Due to Russian shelling and bombing, 3,126 educational institutions have already been damaged, 337 of them have been completely destroyed.
Source: Racurs
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