1,254 children were wounded during the war in Ukraine

During the war in Ukraine, 1,254 children were wounded, photo from open sources

As of March 13, 535 Ukrainian children died at the hands of the Russian occupiers, and another 1,254 were injured.

This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.

«More than 1,789 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of March 13, 2024, according to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, 535 children were killed and more than 1,254 were injured of various degrees of severity,» the message states.

Children were most affected in the following regions: Donetsk region — 524 children, Kharkiv region — 338, Kherson region — 149, Kyiv region — 130, Dnipropetrovsk region — 122, Mykolaiv region — 101, Zaporizhzhia region — 100, Chernihiv region — 72, Luhansk region — 67.

The prosecutor's office noted that 10 children aged from 2 months to 17 years were injured during the day of March 12 as a result of rocket fire by the invaders of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region.

Yesterday, a 7-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl were injured as a result of a Russian air strike with a KAB-type air bomb on Velyka Pysarivka, Sumy region.

We will remind you that in the past day, on March 11, Russian troops shelled the Ochakiv community in Mykolaiv Oblast. Also during the night, defenders shot down four enemy drones.