431 children injured due to Russian aggression in Ukraine

A total of 232 children have been killed and 431 children have been wounded or injured in Ukraine as a result of full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

"More than 663 children have been affected in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of May 23, 2022, the official death toll did not change – 232 children. The number of injured rose to 431 children," the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.

The data are not final, as work is underway to establish casualties in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Most children were affected in Donetsk region – 145, Kyiv region – 116, Kharkiv region – 102, Chernihiv region – 68, Kherson region – 49, Luhansk region – 48, Mykolayiv region – 45, Zaporizhzhia region – 28, Sumy region – 17, Kyiv city – 16, Zhytomyr region – 15.

On May 21, a 7-year-old girl was wounded in the Russian shelling of the village of Molodetske, Kherson region.

Russian bombardment and attacks on Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages have damaged 1,837 educational institutions. Of them, 172 are completely destroyed.

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