Russians kill 499 children in Ukraine

Russians kill 499 children in Ukraine

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As a result of the full-scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, 499 children were killed and 1,090 were injured.

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

"More than 1589 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of August 1, 2023, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 499 children were killed and more than 1090 were injured of varying severity," the statement said.

These numbers are not final. Work is ongoing to establish them in the areas of hostilities, on the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

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Most children were affected in the Donetsk region - 483, Kharkiv - 298, Kyiv - 129, Kherson - 117, Zaporizhzhia - 97, Mykolaiv - 95, Dnipro - 94, Chernihiv - 71, Luhansk - 67.

During the day, on July 31, a 10-year-old girl was killed and eight children aged 4 to 17 years old sustained injuries of varying severity as a result of rocket fire by the Russian army in Kryvyi Rih.

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On July 31, a 16-year-old girl was injured as a result of hostile shelling in Kherson.

As reported, the number of victims of the missile attack on Kryvyi Rih exceeded 80 people, including seven children.

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