In Ukraine, 1,186 children wounded since Russian invasion

Russian invasion troops have left 1,186 Ukrainian children wounded since the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022.

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

"A total of 1,706 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of January 8, 2024, as per official reports from juvenile prosecutors, 520 children have been killed and 1,186 sustained injuries of varying degrees of severity," reads the statement posted on Telegram.

The casualty data are not final as reports coming from the active hostility zones, temporarily captured and liberated territories are being verified.

The largest numbers of affected children were reported in Donetsk region (504), Kharkiv region (312), Kherson region (145), Kyiv region (130), Dnipropetrovsk region (106), Zaporizhzhia region (100), Mykolaiv region (97), Chernihiv region (72), and Luhansk region (67).

On January 7, a 17-year-old teen boy was injured as a result of a Russian missile attack on the village of Senkove, in Kharkiv region’s Kupiansk district.

As Ukrinform reported earlier, on the morning of Monday, January 8, the Russian invasion forces launched a strike targeting Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region, leaving 24 people injured, including five children.