Russia has killed 616 children in Ukraine during full-scale war

Russia has killed 616 children in Ukraine during full-scale war

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In Ukraine, 616 children have already died as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General on Facebook.

As of the morning of April 5, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 2,479 children have been affected: 616 children were killed and 1,863 sustained injuries of varying severity.

Most children were affected in Donetsk region - 636, Kharkiv - 480, Kherson - 202, Dnipro - 226, Kyiv - 136, Zaporizhzhia - 170, Mykolaiv - 118, Sumy - 115.

On April 4, nine children were killed in Kryvyi Rih - two girls aged 7 and 15 and seven boys aged 3, 7, 9, 14, 15 and 16, and 11 children were injured - six girls aged 8 months, 2, 3, 7, 14, 15 and five boys aged 3 months, 4, 8, 11.

On April 3, a 12-year-old girl was killed in an attack in Kharkiv and two girls aged 12 and 17 were injured.

Read also: Russian missile strike on Kryvyi Rih kills 18, including nine children; injures 61

On April 2, an 8-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl were injured in a shelling in Kryvyi Rih.

On the same day, a 10-year-old boy was injured in Kharkiv.

As reported by Ukrinform, according to Ukrainian human rights activists, up to 1.6 million Ukrainian children are under the control of Russia - they are either deported to Russia or forced to live in the temporarily occupied territories.

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