Police report number of children who have gone missing during the war
Yana Osadcha journalist, 1 June 2022
139 Ukrainian children are currently missing.
This was reported by Ihor Klymenko, the Head of the National Police of Ukraine.
More than 1.9 thousand children have been reported missing during the war.
Of these, the police have found and returned 1,794 children to their relatives.
"Almost 100 days of war in Ukraine have led to devastating consequences for children on a scale and at a pace not seen since World War II", – was declared on children's day at UNICEF.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2 children are killed every day in Ukraine, and 4 are injured mainly as a result of attacks involving the use of explosive weapons in settlements.
"The living conditions of children in the East and South of Ukraine, where hostilities have intensified, are becoming increasingly unbearable", - they say at UNICEF.
In total during the war in Ukraine 243 children have been killed and 446 injured. As of May the police had received 1,214 reports of missing children. Almost a hundred minors were still missing at that point.
