382 children killed, 741 injured since Russia’s invasion, claims Ukraine
As many as 382 children were killed and over 741 injured in Ukraine since the Russian invasion, claimed Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office.
“Russia’s war has killed at least 382 children, injured over 741 since Feb. 24. The numbers are expected to be higher since they do not include casualties in the Russian-occupied territories or near the front line,” Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) said, according to The Kyiv Independent.
The most affected children are in the Donetsk region some 388, Kharkiv some 204, Kyiv some 116, Mykolaiv some 71, Chernihiv some 68, Luhansk some 61, Kherson some 55, Zaporizhia some 46,” the PGO claimed, as per Ukraine’s news agency Interfax.
On September 3, as a result of enemy shelling of the town of Zelenodolsk, Dnipropetrovsk region, a nine-year-old boy was killed. On the same day, the occupiers fired from multiple launch rocket systems using prohibited cluster munitions in Vysunsk, Mykolaiv region. As a result, an eight-year-old boy died, and three more children aged nine, seven and 11 were injured, Interfax reported.
On February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a “special military operation” in Ukraine after months of simmering tensions between the two countries.
In March 2022, the United Nations estimated that nearly one of every two Ukrainian children had become a refugee.