Number of children injured by Russian forces in Ukraine climbs to 926
According to Ukrinform, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said this in a Telegram post.
"As of the morning of February 20, 2023, more than 1,387 children were affected by Russia's full-scale armed aggression in Ukraine. According to official figures from juvenile prosecutors, 461 children have been killed and more than 926 have been injured," the post read.
The figures are not final as work is ongoing to determine the number of child casualties in areas of hostilities and temporarily captured and liberated territories.
Most children were killed or injured in the Donetsk region - 445, Kharkiv region - 272, Kyiv region - 123, Kherson region - 89, Zaporizhzhia region - 84, Mykolaiv region - 83, Chernihiv region - 68, Luhansk region - 66, and Dnipropetrovsk region - 64.
On February 19, two boys aged 8 and 13 were wounded in enemy shelling of the village of Burhunka, Kherson region.
On February 17, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said about 150,000 children abducted from Ukraine could stay in Russia.
