The latest balance of civilian victims of the United Nations Organization (UN), dated June 27, estimated at 330 children killed and 489 injured for a total of 4,731 civilians killed since the beginning of the war in Ukraine
The Ukrainian Children’s Prosecutor’s Office reported this Saturday, July 2, that at least 344 children have died, on average eight per day, and another 640 have been injured during attacks carried out by Russia since February of this year, when the Russian invasion began in Ukraine.
The following regions have documented the highest number of child victims, both dead and injured: Donetsk (340), Kharkiv (185), kyiv (116), Chernihiv (68), Lugansk (61), Mykolaiv (53), Kherson (52), and Zaporizhia (31).
In addition, Russia confirmed, in the context of the war, that at the beginning of May that more than 300,000 Ukrainian children were in its territory, which was considered by the kyiv government as “illegal expulsion” of their citizenship. Moscow, however, described it as “evacuations”.
During that period a total of 2,102 Ukrainian educational institutions have been bombed in air strikes and hit with artillery. The infrastructure of 215 of them was totally destroyed, according to figures from the Prosecutor’s Office collected by the National News Agency of Ukraine, Ukrinform.
The latest balance of civilian victims of the United Nations Organization, dated June 27, estimated 330 dead children and 489 wounded for a total of 4,731 dead civilians and 5,900 wounded since the beginning of the invasion.
The pace of attacks in Ukraine has doubled in the past two weeks, according to a general in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. As he said, Russia is using imprecise missiles from former Soviet stockpiles for more than 50% of its attacks.
Russian missiles, for example, have hit a number of targets in Ukraine in recent days, killing one civilian in an apartment block in kyiv on Saturday June 25 and at least 18 more in a shopping mall in the central city of Kiev. Kremenchuk two days later.
With information from Europa Press and The Country of Spain.
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