How many children died in Ukraine due to the war: new data

Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion by Russia into Ukraine, 535 children were killed and over 1,254 injured of varying severity.

This is reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.

Children were most affected in the following regions:

- Donetsk — 524,

- Kharkiv — 338,

- Kherson — 149,

- Kyiv — 130,

- Dnipropetrovsk — 122,

- Mykolaiv — 101,

- Zaporizhzhia — 100,

- Chernihiv — 72,

- Luhansk — 67.

During the day of March 12, as a result of missile shelling by the occupiers of Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk region, 10 children aged from 2 months to 17 years were injured.

"A 7-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl were injured as a result of an enemy air strike with a quided aerial bomb on the village of Velyka Pysarivka of Sumy region," the message states.

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