Russian army injures 1,060 children in Ukraine

The Office of the Prosecutor General reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.

"More than 1,554 children have suffered in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of July 19, 2023, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 494 children were killed and more than 1,060 were injured of varying severity," the statement said.

These numbers are not the final ones. 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 - 474, Kharkiv - 297, Kyiv - 129, Kherson - 116, Zaporizhzhia - 97, Mykolaiv - 89, Dnipro - 83, Chernihiv - 71, Luhansk - 67.

Over the past day, July 18, two boys aged one and 13 were injured as a result of enemy shelling of Zhelanne Pershe village in the Pokrovsk district of the Donetsk region.

As reported earlier, the Russian army injured 10 residents of the Donetsk region over the past day, July 18.