09:09 05.04.2022

Some 165 children killed in Ukraine due to armed aggression of Russia

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Some 165 children killed in Ukraine due to armed aggression of Russia

As of the morning of April 5, 2022, some 165 children in Ukraine were killed and 266 were injured of varying severity as a result of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, the Office of the Prosecutor General reported.

"These figures are not final, since work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories. In particular, in the city of Mariupol, in certain territories of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Luhansk regions," the report says.

Children suffered the most in Kyiv region - 77, Donetsk region - 78, Kharkiv region - 61, Chernihiv region - 49, Mykolaiv region - 35, Luhansk region - 31, Zaporizhia region - 22, Kherson region - 29, the capital - 16, Sumy region - 16, Zhytomyr region - 15.

It is noted that on April 4, as a result of the shelling of the city of Mykolaiv by the armed forces of the Russian Federation, a child was killed.

"Due to the bombing and shelling, 869 educational institutions were damaged, 83 of them were completely destroyed," the Prosecutor General's Office said.

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