More than half a thousand children died in Ukraine during the two years of the full-scale Russian invasion.
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More than a thousand more were injured. Also, two million children went abroad.
Such data was released on February 24 by First Lady Elena Zelenskaya.
I can’t help but remember the losses of the last two weeks: the Putyatin brothers from Kharkov – seven-year-old Alexei, four-year-old Mikhail, ten-month-old Pavlik, who died with their parents in a fire. Nine-year-old Yaroslav Kamenev from Selidovoy. He was lying with his mother in the hospital when a Russian missile hit her, Zelenskaya wrote on her Facebook page.
At least 1,230 children were injured, requiring prosthetics in more than 330 cases.
More than 2 million of our children have left the country to escape.
More than a million children in Ukraine are studying entirely online because the enemy is attacking front-line regions. And a number of schools – about 2 thousand – still do not have bomb shelters.
More than 19 thousand children were kidnapped and taken away by Russia from the occupied territories.
We had a third fewer babies born – 187 thousand in 2023 versus 237 thousand in 2021.
The war unleashed by Russia deliberately targets children. But they have us – their adults. We are fighting for them and will not give up the war, says the president’s wife.
Source: Racurs
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