More than a thousand Ukrainian children have suffered from Russian aggression, 349 children killed

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO — WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY 2022, 08:35

As of the morning of 13 July 2022, more than a thousand children have been affected in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

Source: Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine

Details: According to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 349 children have been killed and more than 652 have been injured to various degrees of severity.

It is noted that these figures are not final, as work continues to establish them in places where active hostilities are taking place, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Children have been the most affected in the Donetsk (352), Kharkiv (190), Kyiv (116), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (61), Mykolaiv (53), Kherson (52) and Zaporizhzhia (31) oblasts.

The body of a 9-year-old boy was found during rescue operations in the town of Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast, after the shelling carried out by the Russian military on 9 July.

On 12 July, two boys aged 2 and 17 were injured as a result of shelling in the city of Siversk, Donetsk Oblast. A two-year-old child is in a serious condition.

2,126 educational institutions have been damaged due to bombardment and shelling by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Of these, 216 have been completely destroyed.