Ukraine's foreign minister criticises UNICEF over reports on child casualties in Ukraine and Russia

Acting Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has criticised the UN children's agency UNICEF for creating a false equivalence between the victim and the aggressor in its reports on casualties in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Source: Sybiha on X (Twitter) on 9 August

Details: Sybiha posted screenshots of UNICEF posts dated 4 August reporting children killed and injured "in attacks in the Russian Federation and Ukraine".

Quote from Sybiha: "It is deeply deplorable that UNICEF missed the essential point in its 4 August statement: all these children's deaths are a direct result of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine. By presenting these casualties without this essential context, UNICEF creates a false equivalence between the aggressor and the victim.

Moreover, UNICEF's statement lacks basic fact-checking. It failed to mention that the casualties in Russia's Krasnodar were caused by a drone reportedly intercepted by Russian air defence. It also failed to verify the information on casualties in Ukraine: seven, not three, children from one family were killed in the Dnipropetrovsk region. And yesterday, Russia killed another innocent Ukrainian child – a 3-year-old boy in the Kyiv region. "

Details: Sybiha called on UNICEF to condemn Russia's war crimes.

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