341 children were killed and 627 children have been injured 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.
"968 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation in our state. As of the morning of June 29, 2022, the official number of child victims over the past day has not changed - 341. The number of injured has increased - 627," the statement says.
Children suffered the most in Donetsk region - 338, Kharkiv region - 183, Kyiv region - 116, Chernihiv region - 68, Luhansk region - 58, Kherson region - 52, Mykolaiv region - 48, Zaporizhzhia region - 31 and Sumy region - 17.
It is noted that on June 28, Russian troops fired at the civilian infrastructure of the city of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, and a 9-year-old boy was wounded.
On June 28, a 3-month-old baby and girls 14 and 15 years old were injured as a result of missile attacks by the enemy of Ochakiv in Mykolaiv region.
On June 27, while clearing rubble in the central district of Mariupol, Donetsk region, a 15-year-old teenager was blown up by a grenade, as a result of which he was injured.
As a result of daily bombardments and shelling by the Russian military of Ukrainian cities and villages, 2,092 educational institutions were damaged, 213 of them were completely destroyed.
As Ukrainian News Agency reported, according to Vice Prime Minister - Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories Iryna Vereshchuk, during the full-scale aggression, Russia deported 1.2 million Ukrainians to its territory, including 240,000 children.
The Verkhovna Rada asks the United Nations Human Rights Committee, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to prevent the adoption by Russians of Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia.
Earlier, the Cabinet of Ministers simplified the mechanism for transferring a child temporarily evacuated to the territory of another state to an adoptive family, in particular, it was allowed to transfer a child in the presence of an official of a consular institution of Ukraine.
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