Because of Russian armed aggression in Ukraine, 165 children were killed and 266 more were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said Tuesday, April 5.
"More than 431 children have been injured in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of April 5, 2022, 165 children had been killed and 266 injured to varying degrees of severity, according to official figures from juvenile prosecutors," the office said.
These figures are not final, since work continues to install them in places of active hostilities in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories, the prosecutor's office said. In particular, in the city of Mariupol, in some areas of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Luhansk regions.
Children were most affected in Kyiv region - 77, Donetsk region - 78, Kharkiv region - 61, Chernihiv region - 49, Mykolaiv region - 35, Luhansk region - 31, Zaporizhia region - 22, Kherson region - 29, the capital - 16, Sumy region - 16, Zhitomyr region - 15, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.
In particular, on April 4, as a result of the shelling of the city of Nikolaev by the Russian armed forces, a child died.
It is also stated that it became known that during the occupation of the town of Vorzel in Kyiv region, the soldiers of the aggressor country threw a smoke bomb into the basement of a house where a 14-year-old child and a woman were, after which they fired, as a result of which the child died on the spot, and the mother died two days later in the same basement.
Also in the city of Bucha, Kyiv region, six people were killed as a result of one of the attacks, including one child.
Due to the bombardment and shelling, 869 educational institutions were damaged. Eighty-three of them were completely destroyed, the prosecutor's office pointed out.
