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More than 513 children have been injured since Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, 177 children died and more than 336 were injured.But even these figures are not final, as the number of dead and injured is still being tried to establish in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.Currently, most children are affected in Donetsk region – 108, Kyiv – 93, Kharkiv – 76, Chernihiv – 51, Mykolaiv – 40, Luhansk – 35, Zaporizhia – 22, Kherson – 29, the capital – 16, Sumy – 16, Zhytomyr – 15.Juvenile prosecutors found that on March 4, in a village in the Nizhyn district of the Chernihiv region, a 14-year-old boy and his brother went to a store and saw the occupiers robbing him. The boys began to flee and were shot in the back by Russian servicemen with automatic weapons. A 14-year-old boy died on the spot and his brother was injured. ЧитайтеTortured and raped children: Denisova about the atrocities of the occupiers in the liberated Kyiv regionOn April 8, three children were wounded as a result of the shelling of a civilian car on the road near the village of Karierne, Beryslav district, Kherson region.Also on April 8, in a village in the Dnipropetrovsk region, a 3-year-old child received mine injuries as a result of shelling by the Russian military.On April 9, a 9-year-old child was injured due to artillery shelling of a residential area in the town of Vuhledar, Donetsk region.The Prosecutor General’s Office also added that since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, 938 educational institutions have been damaged by daily bombing and shelling, and 87 of them have been completely destroyed.
