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Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale armed invasion of Ukraine, 500 children have been killed in the country.
“More than 1,597 children in Ukraine have suffered from the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of August 13, 2023, according to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 500 children were killed and more than 1,097 received injuries of various degrees of severity,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office posted on Telegram.
It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were affected in Donetsk region – 485, Kharkiv region – 298, Kyiv region – 129, Kherson region – 118, Zaporizhzhia region – 99, Mykolaiv region – 97, Dnipropetrovsk region – 94, Chernihiv region – 71, and Luhansk region – 67.
As reported by Ukrinform, the “White Angel” group evacuated three minor children and their mother from the city of Zalizne, Donetsk region.