In Ukraine, 453 children killed, 877 injured amid Russian aggression

Russian troops have already killed 453 children across Ukraine since invasion-start.

That’s according to the Prosecutor General's Office, Ukrinform reports.

"As of the morning of January 6, 2023, more than 1,330 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of the Russian full-scale armed aggression. According to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 453 children were killed and 877 sustained injuries of varying severity," the statement reads.

The data is not final as efforts are underway to verify reports coming from active hostility zones, temporarily captured and liberated territories.

The largest numbers of affected children were recorded in Donetsk region (429), Kharkiv region (268), Kyiv region (117), Kherson region (83), Mykolaiv region (81), Zaporizhia region (81), Chernihiv region (68), Luhansk region (65), and Dnipropetrovsk region (40).

On January 5, a 12-year-old boy was killed along with his family in Beryslav, Kherson region, as a result of enemy shelling, when a projectile hit a residential building.

A total of 3,126 educational facilities were damaged due to bombardments and shelling by the Russian armed forces, of which 337 were completely destroyed.

As Ukrinform reported, 329 Ukrainian children are considered missing, while over 12,000 have been deported.