Die and get injured: 1,476 children have already become victims of Russian aggression in Ukraine

As of June 1, according to juvenile prosecutors in Ukraine, 484 children were killed and 992 were injured from the actions of the Russian military. Cases that occurred on May 31 and June 1 were added to the statistics of children affected by military aggression.

This was reported by the press service of the Office of the Prosecutor General.

“As of the morning of June 1, 2023, more than 1,476 children suffered in Ukraine as a result of Russia’s full-scale armed aggression. According to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 484 children died and more than 992 were injured of varying severity,” the report says.

As a result of Russian rocket attacks:

On June 1, in Kiev, a 9-year-old girl died and a 13-year-old girl was injured;

On May 31, an 8-year-old boy was injured in the Dnepropetrovsk region;

May 31 in the village. Shirokaya Balka, Kherson region, a 3-year-old girl was wounded.

To date, children in the Donetsk region have suffered the most – 462.

In other areas, the following data:

Kharkiv – 279 children,

Kiev – 128 and Kherson – 103,

Zaporіzhzhіа – 91,

Nikolaevskaya – 89,

Dnepropetrovsk – 74, Chernihiv – 71,

Luhansk – 67.

These figures are not final. Work continues to install them in places of warfare, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

393 children are considered missing in Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war.

This was reported by the press service of the Office of the Ombudsman of Ukraine.

As of June 1, 2023, 393 children are considered missing in Ukraine, 19,505 children are deported, and 13,083 children are found.

It was possible to return 371 children.

According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, more than 2,900 Russian war crimes against children are being investigated in Ukraine.

About this during the round table “Children of War. Russia’s crimes against Ukrainian children,” said Oksana Dimitrieva, head of the Department of Protection of Children’s Interests and Combating Violence at the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.

“Russians carry out forced deportation of children. Not only military personnel are in Russian captivity, but also our children. Currently, information on the forced relocation and deportation of almost 19,500 Ukrainian children is being checked,” Oksana Dimitrieva said.

According to her information, cases were recorded when children were separated from their parents, artificially made orphans, and their parents were taken to infiltration camps.

“At the same time, the leadership of the Russian Federation adopts laws that allow children to be granted the citizenship of the Russian Federation under a simplified procedure, thereby bringing them into the legal field of adoption,” said a representative of the Prosecutor General’s Office.