323 children in Ukraine have been killed by the Russian invaders
IRYNA BALACHUK — SATURDAY, 18 JUNE 2022, 09:22
323 children have already been killed and over 583 injured by Russian invaders in Ukraine.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General on Telegram
Quote from the Prosecutor General’s Office: "As of the morning of 18 June, over 906 children have been injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. 323 children have been killed and more than 583 injured."
Details: The prosecutor general's office stressed that these figures are not final, as work to establish them is ongoing in places of active hostilities and in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
The regions with the largest numbers of child casualties are Donetsk (301), Kharkiv (170), Kyiv (116), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (54), and Kherson (52), Mykolaiv (48), Zaporizhia (30) and Sumy (17) oblasts.
A 14-year-old was killed on 16 June after a Russian missile exploded on the territory of a residential building in one of the villages in the Polohiv district, Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
A 7-year-old boy was wounded on 17 June when the city of Mykolaiv was shelled by the invaders.
A 15-year-old girl was wounded on 14 June as a result of artillery shelling of the village of Savintsy in the Izium district, Kharkiv Oblast.
Bombing and shelling by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have damaged 2,028 educational institutions, 209 of which have been completely destroyed.
