As a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 177 children have died and at least 336 have been injured to date, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine has reported.
“This balance is not final. An assessment is being made of the number of victims and losses in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated areas.”
As reported, most of the children suffered as a result of Russian aggression in the Donetsk, Kiev and Kharkov regions.
Russians shoot children
According to the findings of the prosecutor’s office of one of the villages of the Chernihiv region, on March 4, a 14-year-old teenager with his brother, having seen how the Russians were robbing a store, began to run away, and Russian soldiers shot them in the back with a machine gun. weapon. A 14-year-old boy died instantly, and his brother was wounded.
On April 8, three children were injured when a civilian vehicle was shelled on a road in the Kherson region. Also on April 8, in the Dnepropetrovsk region, a three-year-old child was injured as a result of shelling.
On Saturday, as a result of artillery shelling of a residential area in Vugledar, Donetsk region, a 9-year-old child was injured.