(MENAFN- UkrinForm) As a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression, 461 children were killed and 924 more were injured in Ukraine. “As of the morning of February 19, 2023, more than 1,385 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to the official information provided by juvenile prosecutors, 461 children were killed and more than 924 received injuries of various degrees of severity,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office wrote on Telegram.
It is noted that these figures are not final, as work is underway in the areas of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were affected in Donetsk region - 445, Kharkiv region - 272, Kyiv region - 123, Kherson region - 87, Zaporizhzhia region – 84, Mykolaiv region - 83, Chernihiv region - 68, Luhansk region - 66, and Dnipropetrovsk region – 64.
On February 17, a 16-year-old boy was injured as a result of enemy shelling of Bakhmut, Donetsk region.
As reported by Ukrinform, on February 17, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets said that nearly 150,000 illegally deported Ukrainian children may now stay in Russia.
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