16 days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country mourns the deaths of numerous people. The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office is now publishing figures on the number of children killed.
According to information from Kyiv, at least 79 children have been killed and more than 100 injured since the Russian attack on Ukraine.
“These figures do not claim to be exhaustive, since there is no way to inspect the shelling sites where Russian forces are conducting active hostilities,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said.
Since the invasion of Russian troops on February 24, more than 280 educational institutions across the country have been damaged, 110 of them alone in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk, and 9 have been completely destroyed, it said. “As a result, seven million children have been deprived of an opportunity to learn due to active hostilities and the deliberate destruction of these facilities.”
Actual deaths are certainly higher
Meanwhile, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has documented the deaths of 579 civilians in Ukraine since February 24. Among them were 42 children and young people, as the office announced on Saturday in Geneva. The day before there were a total of 564. The office also had verified information about 1002 injured people. The day before it was 982.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, always emphasizes that the actual numbers are certainly much higher. Employees often need days to check the number of victims. The High Commissioner only reports death and injury figures that it has independently verified itself.
“Most of the civilian casualties were caused by the use of long-range explosive weapons, including heavy artillery and rocket launcher fire, as well as missile and airstrikes,” Bachelet’s office said.
The office also provided a regional breakdown: 105 people died in government-controlled zones in the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in the east of the country, 25 in the territory of the self-proclaimed republics recognized by Russia. 449 deaths were registered in other parts of the country, including Kyiv, Kharkiv and Kherson.
Source: Stern
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