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As a result of Russian aggression in Ukraine, the number of wounded has increased. According to preliminary data, their number is about 480 children.
Fortunately, the number of victims has not changed. This was reported at the Office of the Attorney General on June 8.
The number of injured children has increased
More than 741 children have suffered in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of June 8, 2022, the official number of child victims per day has not changed – 263. The number of wounded has increased – 478, the report says. As a result of enemy shelling, a 9-year-old boy was shot.
Also, when fixing criminal offenses, it became known that 10 children were injured in the Kharkiv region.
Data on the number of dead and injured children are not final. After all, prosecutors cannot find out about the victims in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Children suffered the most in the following areas:
- Donetsk – 190;
- Kharkovskaya – 122;
- Kyiv and Kyiv – 132;
- Chernihiv – 68;
- Luganskaya – 53;
- Kherson – 52;
- Nikolaev – 47;
- Zaporizhzhia – 30;
- Sumska – 17;
- Zhytomyrska – 15.
Due to the constant bombing and shelling of Ukrainian In cities and villages, 1,958 educational institutions were damaged, 186 of them were completely destroyed.
Pay attention! You can provide information about a war crime against a child through the only evidence hub using this link and by calling: +38 (096) 100 44 38, +38 (068) 323 58 56.
Latest news about children affected by the war
- On June 3, two people died on the beach in Mariupol, Donetsk region due to a mine explosion. One of the dead turned out to be an 8-year-old boy.
- A 13-year-old boy was injured as a result of an enemy shell hitting a house in Gorsky in the Severodonetsk district of the Lugansk region. The injuries were incompatible with life. The tragedy occurred on June 3.
- It also recently became known that 2 children were injured in the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region.
