The occupiers have killed 358 children in Ukraine to date
IRYNA BALACHUK — THURSDAY, 21 JULY, 09:05
As of the morning of 21 July, as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression in Ukraine, more than 1,039 children have been affected and 358 of them have been killed.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on Telegram
Quote: "According to official information from prosecutors of crimes against youth, 358 children have been killed and more than 681 have been injured to various degrees of severity.
This data is not final, as work continues to confirm figures in places of active hostilities and in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories."
Details: The areas that have seen the most children affected are Donetsk (361), Kharkiv (194), Kyiv (116), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (61), Mykolaiv (53), Kherson (52) and Zaporizhzhia (40) oblasts.
On 20 July, a 13-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old girl was injured in the city of Kharkiv as a result of mass shelling by the Russian army.
In the process of recording criminal offences, it was determined that on 19 June, as a result of artillery shelling of the village of Ivanivka, Izium district, Kharkiv region, a 16-year-old girl was injured.
warcrimes.gov.ua, the site that monitors the crime evidence collection platform, found that four children aged 7 to 15 were killed as a result of shelling of residential areas in the city of Mariupol, Donetsk region, in the period from 24 February to 29 March.
As a result of bombing and shelling by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, 2,185 educational institutions hav been damaged, 221 of them completely destroyed.
