The relevant statement was made by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
More than 500 children in Ukraine have been affected by the Russian armed aggression. As a result, 176 of them died and 324 were injured.
The final data are yet to be updated, as relevant works are underway within the areas of hostilities, temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
According to the data from juvenile prosecutors, most casualties were recorded in Donetsk Region (102), Kyiv Region (91), Kharkiv Region (76), Chernihiv Region (50), Mykolaiv Region (40), Luhansk Region (35), Zaporizhzhia Region (22), Kherson Region (29), the city of Kyiv (16), Sumy Region (16) and Zhytomyr Region (15).
On April 8, 2022, Russian troops launched a Tochka-U missile attack on a railway station in Kramatorsk. More than 4,000 civilians were awaiting evacuation there. As a result, five children were killed and 16 were injured. The missile had a Russian message inscribed on its side: “Za detey” [For children].
