Teen killed by shelling in the Kherson region, girl injured in Mykolaiv shelling
OLENA ROSHCHINA — THURSDAY, 21 APRIL 2022, 10:28
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine is investigating 7,661 crimes involving Russia's aggression against Ukraine or violations of the laws or customs of war, including 584 war crimes against children.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General
Details: The prosecutor's office has 591 officials suspected of promoting Russian aggression.
According to juvenile prosecutors, at least 584 children have been injured in Ukraine as a result of Russian full-scale armed aggression: 208 children have died and 376 have been injured to varying degrees. These numbers are not complete, as there is no final data from places where hostilities are ongoing, or temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
What has been already reported: the highest number of affected children were injured in the Donetsk region - 119, followed by the Kyiv region - 113, Kharkiv region - 91, Chernihiv region - 57, Kherson region - 44, Mykolaiv region - 41, Luhansk region - 36, Zaporizhzhia - 25, the capital - 16, Sumy - 16 , Zhytomyr - 15.
For the last few days a teenager in the Kherson area was killed and a girl in Mykolaiv was injured.
On 20 April two people, including a 16-year-old boy, were killed by artillery fire from the Russian military in Nova Zoria village of the Bilozerskyi district, Kherson region, when a shell hit a residential building.
On 20 April, an 11-year-old girl was injured in a shelling of civilian infrastructure in Mykolaiv.
The body of a 15-year-old teenage girl who received a fatal lung injury was found during the recording of criminal offences committed in the village of Borodianka, Kyiv region.
It was reported that in the first half of March 2022 in the village Klavdiievo-Tarasove, Bucha district, Kyiv region, the Russian military shot at a civilian car carrying a man with his two daughters, aged 7 and 11. The children were seriously injured. The youngest child died without regaining consciousness, and the eldest was rescued.
On 4 March a father and his 7-year-old daughter were injured due to shelling in the village Horenychi. This was learned during the recording of criminal offences in Horenychi.
On 13 March, a 13-year-old boy was injured during the shelling of the town of Kreminna in the Sievierodonetsk district of the Luhansk region.
Bombing and shelling by the Russian armed forces has so far damaged 1,141 educational institutions, 99 of which were completely destroyed.
