As of the morning of June 5, 2022, more than 729 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of a full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. According to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 262 children died and more than 467 were injured, the Office of the Prosecutor General said..

It is noted that these figures are not final, since work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories..

According to juvenile prosecutors, most of the children suffered in the Donetsk region - 189, Kyiv - 116, Kharkiv - 112, Chernihiv - 68, Lugansk - 53, Kherson - 52, Mykolaiv - 47, Zaporozhye - 29, Sumy - 17, in the city of. Kyiv. - 16, Zhytomyr - 15.

In particular, on June 3, as a result of an enemy shell hitting a house in. Gornoye, Luhansk region, 13-year-old boy died.

Also, during the recording of war crimes by the occupiers, it became known that two children were wounded in the Volnovakha district of the Donetsk region..

Due to the constant bombing and shelling of Ukrainian cities and villages by Russian invaders, 1,938 educational institutions were damaged, 182 of them were completely destroyed.

“You can provide information about a war crime against a child through the only evidence hub: warcrimes. gov. ua and by phone: +380961004438, +380683235856,” the Office of the Prosecutor General reminded.

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