A child died and two other children were injured in the shelling of Myroliubivka in the Kherson region

OLENA ROSHCHINA — SUNDAY, 30 MAY 2022, 11:41

On 29 May, a 9-year-old girl was killed and a 7-month-old baby and a 5-year-old girl were injured in a Russian shelling of Myroliubivka in the Kherson region.

Source: Office of the Prosecutor General with reference to juvenile prosecutors

Quote: "On 29 May, a 9-year-old girl died as a result of artillery shelling by the enemy of the village of Myroliubivka, Kherson district, Kherson region. Two other children - a 7-month-old baby and a 5-year-old girl - were injured."

Details: As of the morning of 30 May, at least 687 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression. According to official juvenile prosecutors, 243 children were killed and more than 444 injured.

These numbers are not final, as work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

It turned out that a 16-year-old boy was wounded on 26 May due to Russia's shelling of the city of Lysychansk, Luhansk Oblast.

On 25 May, a 3-year-old boy was injured in the village of Studenok of Izium district of Kharkiv Oblast as a result of the shelling. 

Most children were affected in the following oblasts: Donetsk - 153, Kyiv - 116, Kharkiv - 109, Chernihiv - 68, Luhansk - 52, Kherson - 52, Mykolaiv - 47, Zaporizhzhia - 29, Sumy - 17, Zhytomyr - 15, the city of Kyiv - 16.

As a result of constant bombing and shelling by the Russian Armed Forces of Ukrainian towns and villages, 1,888 educational institutions were damaged. At the same time, 180 of them were completely destroyed.

You can provide information about a war crime against a child through the only evidence hub warcrimes.gov.ua and by phone: +380961004438, +380683235856.