494 children died in Ukraine during the 500 days of the war, at least 1051 children were injured of varying severity. This data is not final, information is being established in the places of active hostilities and in the temporarily occupied territories. This was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in the official Telegram channel.
According to the agency, most children were affected in Donetsk (472), Kharkiv (297) and Kyiv (129) regions. There are also affected children in Kherson (115), Zaporozhye (91), Mykolaiv (89), Dnepropetrovsk (83), Chernihiv (71) and Lugansk (67) regions.
In total, since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 94,000 war crimes have been recorded, more than 10,500 civilians have died, and 115,000 civilian infrastructure facilities have been destroyed, Prosecutor General Andrei Kostin said . Now, according to the prosecutor's office, 353 people are in the status of suspects, 219 are in the status of defendants, 53 people have received sentences in Ukrainian courts.
Earlier, "Important Stories" estimated that Russia could take out about 2,500 orphans from Ukraine, the children's profiles are placed in the data bank for adoption. In January, Ukraine's Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights and Child Rehabilitation, Daria Gerasimchuk, said that only 125 out of 13,899 children illegally taken to Russia were returned to Ukraine. Before that, the head of the Lugansk Regional Military Administration (OVA), Sergei Gaidai , said that the Russians had taken 300 children from the Donbass to Moscow under the pretext of "treatment for serious injuries."