More than 1,578 Ukrainian children killed and injured due to Russian invasion

More than 1,578 Ukrainian children killed and injured due to Russian invasion

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As a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, 498 children have been killed and more than 1,080 have been injured in Ukraine.

"More than 1,578 children have been killed and injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of July 30, 2023, according to the official information from juvenile prosecutors, 498 children were killed and more than 1,080 received injuries of various degrees of severity," the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.

As noted, the numbers are not final as the efforts are ongoing to establish casualties in the areas of military operations, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

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Most children were killed and injured in Donetsk region – 482, Kharkiv region – 298, Kyiv region – 129, Kherson region – 116, Zaporizhzhia region – 97, Mykolaiv region – 95, Dnipropetrovsk region – 85, Chernihiv region – 71, Luhansk region – 67.

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