Russian armed aggression affects over 1,390 children in Ukraine
The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
“As of March 3, 2023, over 1,390 children in Ukraine were affected by the Russian armed aggression. According to the data from juvenile prosecutors, a total of 461 children were killed and over 930 received injuries of various severity levels,” the report states.
These data are not final, as they are being investigated within the areas of hostilities, temporarily occupied and liberated areas.
Currently, most casualties were recorded in the Donetsk region (445), Kharkiv region (272), Kyiv region (123), Kherson region (90), Zaporizhzhia region (84), Mykolaiv region (83), Chernihiv region (68), Luhansk region (66) and Dnipropetrovsk region (64).
On March 2, 2023, a 16-year-old boy was injured in Russia’s shelling of the Kherson region’s village of Kozatske.
As a result of Russia’s daily air and artillery strikes, a total of 3,126 educational institutions were damaged across Ukraine, and 438 of them were destroyed completely.
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