Number of children killed by Russia in Ukraine rises to 177, but data is provisional and incomplete
Iryna Balachuk – Sunday, 10 April 2022, 08:58
At least 177 children have been killed in the 45 days of Russian military aggression in Ukraine, and 336 more have been injured.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on Telegram
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office: "Over 513 children have been harmed as a result of the armed invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. 176 children have died and more than 336 have been injured."
Details: The Office of the Prosecutor General stressed that these numbers are provisional as work is underway to identify victims in places of active hostilities, and in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
[Editor’s note: According to government estimates, as of 27 March, almost 5,000 people have died in Mariupol, including about 210 children. It is currently impossible to count the exact number of victims there.]
Most children have been affected in the Donetsk (108), Kyiv (93), Kharkiv (76), Chernihiv (51), Mykolayiv (40), Luhansk (35), Zaporizhzhia (22), Kherson (29), Sumy (16), and Zhytomyr (15) regions, and in the capital of Ukraine (16).
Police found that on 4 March, Russians shot two children in the back in a village in the Nizhyn district of the Chernihiv region because the children saw the occupiers looting a store. A 14-year-old boy died on the spot, and his brother was injured.
On 8 April, 3 children were wounded in a shelling of a civilian car on a road near the village of Karyerne in the Beryslav district of the Kherson region.
Also on 8 April, a 3-year-old child suffered explosion and blast injuries as a result of Russian shelling in a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
On 9 April, a 9-year-old child was injured in artillery shelling of a residential area in the town of Vuhledar, in the Donetsk region.
938 educational institutions have been damaged as a result of daily bombings and shelling since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, 87 of which have been completely destroyed.
