Russian invaders injure 1,191 children in Ukraine since war started
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said this in a Telegram post, Ukrinform reports.
"More than 1,711 children affected injured in Ukraine due to Russia's full-scale armed aggression. As of the morning of January 9, 2024, according to official figures from juvenile prosecutors, 520 children were killed and more than 1,191 injured," the post said.
The figures are not final as work is underway to establish them in areas of hostilities and the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were killed or injured in the Donetsk region - 504, Kharkiv region - 313, Kherson region - 145, Kyiv region - 130, Dnipropetrovsk region - 111, Zaporizhzhia region - 100, Mykolaiv region - 97, Chernihiv region - 72, and Luhansk region - 67.
On January 8, five children aged 4, 8, 11, 16 and 17 were injured in a Russian missile strike on Novomoskovsk, Dnipropetrovsk region.
