Russia kills 497 children in Ukraine
The Office of the Prosecutor General reported this on Telegram, according to Ukrinform.
"More than 1574 children have been injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of July 25, 2023, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 497 children were killed and more than 1077 were injured of varying severity," the statement said.
These numbers are not final. Work is ongoing to establish them in the areas of hostilities, on the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were affected in the Donetsk region - 481, Kharkiv - 298, Kyiv - 129, Kherson - 116, Zaporizhzhia - 97, Mykolaiv - 89, Dnipro - 83, Chernihiv - 71, Luhansk - 67.
On July 24, a 10-year-old boy died and four children aged 5 to 12 were injured as a result of an enemy attack on the town of Kostyantynivka in the Donetsk region.
A 12-year-old boy was injured as a result of Russian shelling of Pishchane village in the Kupyansk district of the Kharkiv region.
