The Attorney General’s Office of Ukraine on Sunday counted 379 Ukrainian children dead and another 733 injured since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office published on Telegram.
“On the morning of August 28, 2022, more than 1,112 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of large-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. According to official data from juvenile prosecutors, 379 children died and more than 733 were injured,” the statement reads.
The Attorney General’s Office guarantees, however, that the data “are not definitive, as they are being investigated in the areas of hostilities, temporarily occupied and liberated areas”.
According to information from the Prosecutor’s Office published by the Ukrainian news agency “Ukrinform”, the highest number of dead and injured children was recorded in the Donetsk region, with 388; followed by the Kharkiv region with 202 and the Kiev region with 116.
According to data released in Ukraine, the rest of the children killed or injured correspond to the Chernigov region (68), the Mykolaiv region (67), the Lugansk region (61), the Kherson region (55) and the Zaporizhzhya region (44).
“Ukrinform” recalls in its information that last Friday two children aged 8 years and 1 year and 8 months died as a result of a bombing in the residential infrastructure of the village of Kamianka, district of Pology, region of Zaporizhzhya.
During the war, according to Ukraine, 2,328 educational institutions were damaged by daily Russian bombing. Of these, 289 were completely destroyed.
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