The number of killed children has increased by 2 to 217 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.
"608 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to official data, 217 children were killed and 391 children were injured," the statement says.
Children suffered the most in Donetsk region - 127, Kyiv region - 114, Kharkiv region - 93, Chernihiv region - 66, Kherson region - 44, Mykolaiv region - 43, Luhansk region - 37, Zaporizhzhia region - 27, Sumy region - 17, and in the city of Kyiv - 16.
It is noted that on April 25, as a result of the shelling of residential buildings by Russian invaders in the town of Lyman (Donetsk region), two children aged 9 and 13 died from injuries.
It is also indicated that due to the bombing and shelling of Ukrainian cities and villages by the Russian military, 1,508 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.
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