The number of killed children has increased by 2 to 202, wounded - by 1 to 361 since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The Prosecutor General’s Office has said this in a statement, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the data received by juvenile prosecutors, children suffered the most in Donetsk region - 117, in Kyiv region - 106, in Kharkiv region - 89, in Chernihiv region - 54, in Kherson region - 41, in Mykolaiv region - 40, in Luhansk region - 36, in Zaporizhzhia region - 23, in the capital - 16, in Sumy region - 16, in Zhytomyr region - 15.
Due to the massive bombing and shelling of Ukrainian cities and villages by the Russian Armed Forces, 1,018 educational institutions were damaged, of which 95 were completely destroyed.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on April 11, Ukraine and Lithuania agreed to cooperate in the protection of children affected by the war in Ukraine.
On March 19, the invaders illegally took to Russia 2,389 children who were in the temporarily occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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