Russian army kills 509 children in Ukraine

As of October 26, 509 children have been killed and more than 1,139 injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full scale invasion.

“More than 1,648 children in Ukraine have suffered from the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of October 26, 2023, according to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 509 children were killed and more than 1,139 received injuries of various degrees of severity,” the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine posted on Telegram.

It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Most children were affected in Donetsk region - 492, Kharkiv region - 304, Kherson region – 132, Kyiv region - 129, Zaporizhzhia region – 99, Mykolaiv region - 97, Dnipropetrovsk region – 96, Chernihiv region – 72, and Luhansk region – 67.

On October 25, a 13-year-old boy was killed in a Russian shelling of Beryslav, Kherson region.

As reported by Ukrinform, mandatory evacuation of 800 children accompanied by parents is underway in 23 settlements in Kherson region.