Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 352 children have died and 657 children have been injured. This is reported by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, emphasizing that this is not the final data. The counting of victims continues in the places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were affected in:
- Donetsk region – 352,
- Kharkiv region – 191,
- Kyiv region – 116,
- Chernihiv region – 68,
- Luhansk region – 61,
- Nikolaev region – 53,
- Kherson region – 52,
- Zaporozhye region – 31.
The last cases of death and injury of children were recorded on July 14 in Vinnitsa. There, a 4-year-old girl and two boys were killed as a result of a Russian missile attack on the city center. Four more children were injured.
The Prosecutor General's Office also reports that during the recording of criminal offenses in the Kharkiv region, it became known that a boy was injured as a result of the shelling of Chuguev on February 24.
According to the agency, 2,126 educational institutions in Ukraine were damaged due to Russian bombing. Of these, 216 were completely destroyed.
