As a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, 231 children died, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General,
KYIV. UkraineGate , 19 , May , 2022 | War News .
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“As of the morning of May 19, 2022, more than 658 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of full-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. According to official data from juvenile prosecutors, 231 children died and more than 427 were injured,” the statement said.
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The largest number of children was reported in the Donetsk region – 144, Kyiv – 116, Kharkiv – 100, Chernihiv – 68, Kherson – 48, Luhansk – 47, Mykolaiv – 44, Zaporizhia – 28, Sumy – 17, in Kyiv – 16 , Zhytomyr – 15.
These figures are not final, as work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
So, on May 17 the enemy again fired at the city of Bakhmut of Donetsk region. Children aged 9, 12 and 17 were seriously injured in the aftermath of a rocket attack on a residential building. On May 18, rescuers found the bodies of a woman and a 2-year-old child under the rubble of a destroyed house.
It became known about the death of a 17-year-old girl in the town of Pologi, Zaporizhia region, as a result of shelling by the occupier of the city’s civilian infrastructure.
On May 16 on the highway in the Nikolaev area eight people, among which the 5-year-old girl, exploded on a mine. All of them received injuries of varying severity.
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The bombing and shelling of Ukrainian towns and villages by the Russian armed forces damaged 1,828 educational institutions. At the same time, 171 of them were completely destroyed.
Source: Ukrgate
