“Unspeakably tragic: the Russian army deliberately chooses our children as the target of their bloody plans. Monsters kidnap children and use them as human shields to ‘protect’ their killing columns. This became known from the inhabitants of villages in Chernihiv region. Such atrocities are also recorded in Sumy, Kyiv, and Zaporizhzhia regions,” Mykola Kuleba, Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children's Rights, posted on Facebook, Ukrinform reports.
He mentioned the tragedy that had occurred on April 1 in Hostomel, Kyiv region. The occupiers shot a car with a woman and a child, killing the mother. As a result of Russia’s shelling with phosphorus munitions, 11 people were injured, including 5 children, in Marinka, Novomykhailivka, and Krasnohorivka, Donetsk region.
"Meanwhile, the country's most tragic counter is ruthless: 153 children killed and 245 injured. These data do not take into account 210 children who died at the hands of the occupiers in the besieged Mariupol," the Commissioner noted.
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, as of April 2, at least 158 children were killed and 254 were injured in Ukraine.
On February 24, Russian president Putin started a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Russian invaders shell and destroy infrastructure, massively fire on residential areas of Ukrainian cities, towns, and villages using artillery, MLRS, ballistic missiles and aviation bombs.
