Russia killed 11,000 civilians, including over 500 children, in Ukraine – PM Shmyhal

Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said this at the international conference “Special tribunal for the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Justice to be served,” an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

“This war is one of the most brutal in the history of mankind, because Russia is waging it against all Ukrainians - against women, the elderly, and children, even the unborn. Since February 2022, our enemy has committed more than 136,000 crimes. This is only what has been recorded so far. In fact, there are many more crimes. Over this period of time, about 11,000 civilians have been killed, including 500 children," said the head of the Ukrainian government, stressing that these are not final data.

He also reminded that only according to official information, Russia has abducted nearly 20,000 Ukrainian children, making many of them orphans with living parents and forcibly adopting them.

In addition, Shmyhal informed that Russian terrorists destroyed more than 116,000 civilian infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, tens of thousands of houses, thousands of educational institutions and hospitals, left hundreds of thousands of people without housing and medical care.

As reported, on August 17, the Prime Minister held a meeting with relevant departments and instructed to estimate damages caused to Ukraine by Russia.