Russians already injure 1,139 children in Ukraine
The Office of the Prosecutor General reported this on Telegram, Ukrinform reported.
"More than 1,647 children have been injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of October 25, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 508 children were killed and more than 1,139 were injured of varying severity," the statement reads.
The 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 - 492, Kharkiv - 304, Kherson - 131, Kyiv - 129, Zaporizhzhia - 99, Mykolaiv - 97, Dnipro - 96, Chernihiv - 72, Luhansk - 67.
On October 24, a 12-year-old boy was injured as a result of shelling by Russian troops in Bilozerka, in the Kherson region.
As reported, the head of the Juvenile Prevention Department of the National Police of Ukraine Vasyl Bohdan said that in Ukraine, during a full-scale war, an average of one child is killed, two are injured, and three children go missing every day.
