469 children killed in Ukraine due to Russian aggression

"As of the morning of April 15, 2023, more than 1,417 children were killed and injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to the official information from the juvenile prosecutors, 469 children were killed and more than 948 children received injuries of various degrees of severity," the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.

These numbers are not final as the efforts are ongoing to establish casualties in the areas of military operations, in temporarily captured and liberated territories.

Most children were killed and injured in Donetsk region – 451, Kharkiv region – 275, Kyiv region – 127, Kherson region – 94, Zaporizhzhia region – 89, Mykolaiv region – 85, Chernihiv region – 68, Luhansk region – 66, Dnipropetrovsk region – 66.

On Saturday, April 14, a two-year-old boy was killed and a 14-year-old girl was injured in Russian missile attacks on the civilian infrastructure of Slovyansk, Donetsk region.

The National Police reported that a total of 11,258 children were considered missing since the beginning of the full-scale war and as of April 13.