During the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine, at least 462 children have died. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine on March 4.
According to juvenile prosecutors, another 930 children were injured of varying degrees of severity as a result of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. It is noted that these figures are not final, as it is difficult to collect data in the temporarily occupied territories.
Most of the affected children are in Donetsk (445), Kharkiv (272), Kiev (123), Kherson (90), Zaporozhye (84), Mykolaiv (83), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (66) and Dnepropetrovsk (64) areas.
In addition, due to the massive bombing and shelling of the Russian troops, 3126 educational institutions were damaged, 438 were completely destroyed.
The Prosecutor General's Office has published a link to the "Children of War" platform , where you can report or find information about children who suffered as a result of the Russian war against Ukraine.
Earlier, the Conflict Observatory project concluded that Russia has a network of institutions that “re-educate” Ukrainian children abducted during the war. Most of them were created on the basis of holiday camps. In total, at least six thousand children went through such camps. Only 125 of the 13,899 children illegally taken by Russian authorities in the almost year since the invasion have been returned to the country, according to Daria Gerasimchuk, Commissioner for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation in Ukraine. In January, the head of the Lugansk region, Sergei Gaidai , said that the Russians had taken 300 children from the Donbass to Moscow under the pretext of “treatment for serious injuries.”