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191 children killed in Ukraine due to Russian armed aggression

Wednesday, 13 April 2022, 09:18

SVITLANA KIZILOVA - WEDNESDAY, 13 APRIL, 2022, 09:18

As of the morning of 13 April, 191 children have been killed and more than 349 injured as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

Source: Office of the Prosecutor General in Telegram

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Details: Juvenile prosecutors emphasise that these data are not final, as work is still ongoing in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

It is noted that the most affected children were in these regions: Donetsk - 113, Kyiv - 102, Kharkiv - 79, Chernihiv - 54, Mykolaiv - 40, Kherson - 38, Luhansk - 36, Zaporizhzhia - 23, city of Kyiv - 16, Sumy - 16, Zhytomyr - 15.

Quote: "During the recording of criminal offences committed by Russian occupiers in the towns of Borodianka and Korolivka in the Kyiv region, the charred bodies of a 16-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy were found.

On 11 April, the Russian armed forces fired on civilian infrastructure in Kharkiv. A one-and-a-half-month-old child and a 12-year-old teenager died. Another 4 children aged 1, 4, 5 and 9 were injured.

On 11 April a 15-year-old girl was seriously injured in a residential building in the Kherson region.

Indiscriminate bombings and shelling of Ukrainian towns and villages by the Russian armed forces have damaged 957 educational institutions, 88 of which have been completely destroyed."

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