More than 653 children affected in Ukraine as a result of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. According to official figures, 229 children died and more than 424 were injured.. This was announced by the Office of the Attorney General.

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According to juvenile prosecutors, most of the children suffered in the Donetsk region - 141, Kyiv - 116, Kharkiv - 100, Chernihiv - 68, Kherson - 48, Lugansk - 47, Mykolaiv - 44, Zaporozhye - 28, Sumy - 17, in Kyiv - 16, Zhytomyr - 15.

Due to the bombing and shelling of Ukrainian cities and villages by Russian invaders, 1,772 educational institutions were damaged, 161 of them were completely destroyed.

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Since the beginning of a full-scale war, the invaders have taken to Russia over two thousand Ukrainian orphans and children deprived of parental care..

Why did it happen? How the authorities see problems in the field of child protection and how they plan to solve them during and after the war? Is it possible to adopt a child now, and is it necessary to simplify the procedure?

Read about it in Alla Kotlyar’s interview with Daria Gerasimchuk, the Commissioner of the President of Ukraine for Children’s Rights and Child Rehabilitation: “Children should not live in institutions, every child should have a family”.