Number Of Injured Children Up 1 To 417 Since Start Of Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine

The number of killed children compared to the data on the morning of May 10 has not changed and is 226, the number of injured has increased by 1 to 417 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.

"643 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of May 11, 2022, the official number of child victims has not changed - 226. The number of injured has increased - 417," the statement says.

Children suffered the most in Donetsk region - 139, Kyiv region - 116, Kharkiv region - 99, Chernihiv region - 68, Kherson region - 46, Luhansk region - 45, Mykolaiv region - 44, Zaporizhzhia region - 28, Sumy region - 17, in the city of Kyiv - 16 and in Zhytomyr region - 15.

It is noted that on May 9, a 13-year-old teenager was injured as a result of shelling by the invaders of a residential area in Lysychansk of Luhansk region.

As a result of daily bombardments and shelling by the armed forces of the Russian Federation of Ukrainian cities and villages, 1,657 educational institutions were damaged, 139 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.