800 children have died as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation since 2014
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- Daria Rohalevych
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8:55, 05 June, 2024
Illustrative photo.Since 2014, Russia has killed more than 800 children in Ukraine. During the full-scale invasion, the occupiers killed at least 551 Ukrainian children, and another 1,368 children were injured.
This was announced by the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Andrii Kostin.
«The war did not start in 2022, but in 2014. Since then, Russia has killed more than 800 Ukrainian children. We still do not know the true scale of the crimes committed in the occupied territories, to which we do not have access,» he said.
According to the Prosecutor General, 3,800 criminal proceedings are currently under investigation. 54 persons who committed crimes against children were identified and suspicions were declared against them. In 43 criminal proceedings, the investigation was completed, the guilty verdicts were handed over to the court. 31 people have already been convicted of war crimes against children.
«In the case of deportations, we continue our daily cooperation with the Prosecutor's Office of the International Criminal Court, which opened a field office in Kyiv last year. We constantly exchange evidence and information. The arrest warrants issued by the ICC are only the first result,» Andrii Kostin added.
He noted that 7 suspects in the illegal transfer of Ukrainian children were identified as part of the national prosecution. Among them is a member of the Russian parliament and a person close to the leader of the Just Russia party.
Kostin added that in addition to punishing the guilty, they are also working on returning children home.
«The international coalition, created for this purpose as part of the implementation of President Zelenskyy's Peace Formula, includes more than 36 countries and is actively working. We already have the results: the return of groups of children,» said the Prosecutor General.
We will remind that more than 100 children were injured as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in the Mykolaiv region.