INTERNATIONAL EDITORIAL – The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has counted today Sunday 379 dead Ukrainian children and others 550 wounded since the Russian invasion began last 24 February, according to a statement from the Prosecutor’s Office published on Telegram and broadcast by local media.
“Until the morning of 26 August 2022, more than 1,112 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to official data from juvenile prosecutors, 379 children died and more than 733 were injured,” says the statement.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office assures, however, that the data “is not definitive, since they are being investigated in the areas of hostilities, areas temporarily occupied and released”.
According to information from the Prosecutor’s Office published by the Ukrinform agency, the highest number of dead and injured children has been recorded in the Donetsk region, with 388; followed by the Kharkiv region, with 289, and the Kyiv region, with 116.
According to the data released in Ukraine, the rest of the children killed or injured correspond to the Cherniguiv region (68), the Mykolaiv region (55), the Lugansk region (61), the Kherson (55) and the Zaporizhia region (44).
Ukriform reminds in its information that the 26 in August, two children aged 8 years and 1 year and 8 months died as a result of enemy shelling of the residential infrastructure of the village of Kamianka, Pology district, Zaporizhia region.
During the war, according to Ukraine, 2,328 educational institutions have been damaged by daily Russian bombing. Of these, 289 have been completely destroyed.