Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Liudmyla Denisova has said that 32 children have died and 70 have been injured in Ukraine since the start of the Russian Federation's invasion.

"As of 11 a.m. on March 5, 2022, since the beginning of the invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 32 children were killed, 70 were injured," she wrote on the social network Facebook.

According to her, as a result of 47 shellings of civilian objects in Kyiv region, two children were killed, about a hundred people, including children, may be under the rubble of houses in the village of Borodianka in Kyiv region, and their fate is unknown.

In the settlement of Markhalivka, Fastiv district, Kyiv region, enemy shells claimed the lives of 3 children, and 5 children were killed due to rocket and artillery shelling in Kharkiv.

Also in Kyiv region, on March 4, 2022, a car with 6 civilians was shot from tank machine guns of a column of military equipment of the invaders, a 17-year-old girl and a woman were killed, four more received shrapnel wounds, among them girls 17 and 7 years old.

"Russian troops continue to cynically violate the right of children to life, enshrined in Article 6 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. I call on international human rights organizations to take all possible measures to increase pressure on the Russian Federation to stop military aggression against Ukraine. I ask NATO member countries to close the sky over Ukraine," Denisova said.