"As of the morning of February 25, 2023, more than 1,388 children were killed and injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, 461 children were killed and 927 children received injuries of various degrees of severity," the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.
As noted, the numbers are not final as efforts are ongoing to establish casualties in the areas of hostilities, in temporarily captured and liberated territories.
According to the Prosecutor General's Office data, most children were killed and injured in Donetsk region – 445, Kharkiv region –272, Kyiv region – 123, Kherson region – 90, Zaporizhzhia region – 84, Mykolaiv region – 83, Chernihiv region – 68, Luhansk region – 66, Dnipropetrovsk region – 64.
A year into the war, the Russian armed forces damaged 3,126 educational institutions in Ukraine with massive bombings and shelling; 438 institutions were completely destroyed.
As reported, 345 children are considered missing in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war with the Russian Federation.
