At least 79 children have died and a hundred have been injured since the invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops beganon February 24, according to a report published this Saturday by the Ukrainian Children’s Prosecutor’s Office on its Telegram account.
Most of the deaths included in this report, whose data cannot be verified by an independent source, have occurred in Russian attacks against the country’s main cities.
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“During the 16 days of war in Ukraine, 79 children have already died and almost 100 have been injured. Most of the victims were in the Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson and Zhytomyr regions.“, states the report.
According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, this figure is not final “due to the lack of opportunity to inspect the places of attack, where the Russian armed forces are carrying out their hostile activities“.
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Until now, more than 280 educational institutions have been destroyed, 9 of them completely.
In the Donetsk region in the east of the country, 110 educational institutions were damaged, in the Sumy region. Also in the east, 28 were affected. And in Kiev, 17, in addition to a dozen medical centers for minors.
According to the document, an average of 17 educational institutions have been destroyed daily by Russian attacks since the invasion ordered by the president of that country, Vladimir Putin, began.
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About seven million children are deprived of the opportunity to study due to active hostilities on the territory of Ukraine and the deliberate destruction of such institutions, the Prosecutor’s Office denounces.
EFE
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