The number of killed children compared to the data on the morning of May 9 increased by 1 to 226, injured - by 2 to 415 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.
"As of the morning of May 9, 2022, 641 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. At the same time, according to official data, 226 children were killed and 415 were injured," the statement says.
Children suffered the most in Donetsk region - 139, Kyiv region - 116, Kharkiv region - 99, Chernihiv region - 68, Kherson region - 46, Mykolaiv region - 44, Luhansk region - 44, Zaporizhzhia region - 28, Sumy region - 17, in the city of Kyiv - 16 and Zhytomyr region - 15.
On May 8, it became known about the death of a 13-year-old girl, who was in one of the cars of a convoy of private cars, which on May 4 was fired upon by invaders in Chuhuivskyi district of Kharkiv region.
On May 7, due to shelling by enemy troops of the villages of Bilohorivka and Shypylove (both - Luhansk region), two girls aged 9 and 13 were injured.
As a result of daily bombardments and shelling by the Russian Armed Forces of Ukrainian cities and villages, 1,635 educational institutions were damaged, 126 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 districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
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