"As of the morning of February 17, 2023, more than 1,384 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 the juvenile prosecutors, 461 children were killed and more than 923 children received injuries of various degrees of severity," the Prosecutor General's Office posted on Telegram.
The Prosecutor General's Office emphasized that the indicated numbers are not final as the efforts are ongoing to establish casualties in the areas of hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Most children were killed and injured in Donetsk region – 444, Kharkiv region – 272, Kyiv region – 123, Kherson region – 87, Zaporizhzhia region – 84, Mykolaiv region – 83, Chernihiv region – 68, Luhansk region – 66, Dnipropetrovsk region – 64.
The Russian army damaged 3,126 educational institutions in Ukraine, and 338 of them are completely destroyed.
As of February 2023, 347 children are considered missing amid Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine.
