Russian army kills 502 children in Ukraine - PGO

Since the beginning of Russia's full-scale armed invasion of Ukraine, 502 children have been killed in the country.

“More than 1,599 children in Ukraine have suffered from the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of August 14, 2023, according to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 502 children were killed and more than 1,097 received injuries of various degrees of severity,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.

It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

Most children were affected in Donetsk region - 485, Kharkiv region - 298, Kyiv region - 129, Kherson region - 120, Zaporizhzhia region – 99, Mykolaiv region - 97, Dnipropetrovsk region – 94, Chernihiv region – 71, and Luhansk region – 67.

On August 13, a one-month-old baby and an 11-year-old boy were killed in a Russian missile attack on the village of Shyroka Balka, Kherson region.

As Ukrinform reported, 388 children and their families need to be mandatory evacuated from the hottest spots in Donetsk region.