Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office said today that 112 children have died in the war in Ukraine so far, Reuters reports.
The information published in Telegram adds that so far 140 children have suffered in the conflict.
However, Reuters said it could not verify information from independent sources.
More than 100 empty baby carriages were placed on the square in Lviv for the display of “The Cost of War”.
At the same time, Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky said that the clearance of unexploded ordnance would take years after the end of the Russian invasion.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Monastirsky said the country would need Western help to carry out a large-scale post-war enterprise. “A huge number of shells and mines were fired in Ukraine, and most of them did not explode. They remain under the rubble and pose a real threat,” Monastyrsky said in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
“It will take years, not months, to get rid of them,” he added.
In addition to unexploded ordnance, the Ukrainian military has planted mines on bridges, airports and other key locations to prevent their use by the Russians.
“We will not be able to clear mines from this entire area, so I asked our international partners and colleagues from the European Union and the United States to prepare teams of specialists to clear mines from combat areas and objects that have come under fire,” he told Monastyrsky in front of the presidential administration.
He noted that his ministry’s demining equipment remained in Mariupol, a besieged port city of 430,000 that was under constant shelling for most of the war. “We lost 200 vehicles there,” Monastirsky said.
According to the minister, one of the biggest tasks facing the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is extinguishing fires caused by incessant shelling and airstrikes from Russia. According to him, the country’s emergency service, which is under the jurisdiction of the ministry, is sorely lacking in personnel and equipment.
“In the coming days, the humanitarian catastrophe in critical areas will deepen,” Monastirsky said. “I must say that the losses among the civilian population are several times higher than our military losses.”