Russians injure 1,097 children in Ukraine
Russian invaders killed 499 children in Ukraine and injured another 1,097 children.
The Office of the Prosecutor General reports this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
"More than 1,596 children have been injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of August 11, 2023, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 499 children were killed and more than 1,097 were injured of varying severity," the statement said.
The numbers are not final. Work is ongoing to establish them in the areas of hostilities, on the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were affected in the Donetsk region - 485, Kharkiv - 298, Kyiv - 129, Kherson - 118, Zaporizhzhia - 99, Mykolaiv - 97, Dnipro - 94, Chernihiv - 71, Luhansk - 67.
On August 10, two children aged two and 14 sustained injuries of varying severity as a result of an enemy rocket attack on Zaporizhzhia.
As reported, on August 10 at 7:20 p.m., Russian troops fired an Iskander-K missile at a civilian facility in the center of Zaporizhzhia. One person was killed and 16 others were injured.