1,341 children were wounded during the war in Ukraine
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- Diana Shlykova
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11:45, 15 May, 2024
As of May 15, 546 Ukrainian children died at the hands of the Russian occupiers, and another 1,341 were injured.
This was reported by the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office.
«More than 1,887 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of May 15, 2024, according to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, 546 children were killed and more than 1,341 were injured of various degrees of severity,» the message states.
Children were most affected in Donetsk region — 531, Kharkiv — 370, Kherson — 150, Dnipropetrovsk — 139, Kyiv — 130, Zaporizhzhia — 108, Mykolaiv — 105.
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.
We will remind, on May 14, as a result of shelling by the Russian army in the city of Kharkiv, two girls aged 8 and 12 and two boys aged 12 and 14 were injured.
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 Pisarivka, Sumy region.
We will remind, on March 11, Russian troops shelled the Ochakiv community in the Mykolaiv region. Also during the night, defenders shot down four enemy drones.