Number Of Killed Children Up 5 To 213 Since Start Of Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

The number of killed children over the past day, April 23, increased by 5 to 213, the number of injured - by 2 to 389 since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The Prosecutor General's Office has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"602 children suffered in Ukraine during two months of full-scale armed aggression by the Russian Federation. According to official data, as of the morning of April 24, 2022, 213 children were killed and 389 were injured," the statement says.

According to the data of juvenile prosecutors, children suffered the most in Donetsk region - 122, Kyiv region - 114, Kharkiv region - 91, Chernihiv region - 66, Kherson region - 44, Mykolaiv region - 43, Luhansk region - 37, Zaporizhzhia region - 27, Sumy region - 17, the city of Kyiv - 16, Zhytomyr region - 15.

It is also indicated that due to the bombing and shelling of Ukrainian cities and villages by the Russian Armed Forces, 1,500 educational institutions were damaged, 102 of them were completely destroyed.

As Ukrainian News Agency reported, on April 11, Ukraine and Lithuania agreed to cooperate in the field of protecting children affected by the war in Ukraine.

On March 19, the occupiers illegally took to Russia 2,389 children who were in the temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.