Russian troops have killed 90 children and destroyed 59 education establishments since the beginning of war

Yana Osadcha – Monday, 14 March 2022

As of 14 March 2022, 90 children have been killed in Ukraine since the beginning of the war with Russia.

More than 100 children have been wounded, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

The number of children who were wounded and killed in the war is the highest in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kherson, Mykolayiv, and Zhytomy regions.

"On 13 March alone, two children were killed and two wounded in the shelling of civilian infrastructure in Mykolayiv," according to the prosecutors.

Russian troops have also damaged 379 educational establishments, 59 of which have been completely destroyed.

In the Donetsk region, 119 educational establishment were attacked by the Russian troops, 30 in the Mykolayiv region, 28 in the Sumy region, 35 in the Kyiv region, 21 in the Kherson region, and 24 more in the city of Kyiv.

"These numbers are not final, given the lack of opportunity to inspect the sites where the armed forces of the Russian Federation are actively carrying out hostilities and the sites in the temporarily occupied territories," according to the Prosecutor’s Office.

According to the Prosecutor General’s data from 13 March, 85 children have been killed and 100 wounded since the beginning of the war.