As a result of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, 450 children died – Prosecutor General’s Office

As a result of Russia’s full-scale aggression in Ukraine, more than 1,313 children were injured, 450 were killed

This was reported in the Office of the Prosecutor General.

“As of the morning of December 18, 2022, more than 1,313 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. According to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, 450 children died and more than 863 were injured of varying degrees of severity.” – reported in the press service of the Prosecutor General.

It is noted that the figures are not final – data collection is ongoing in liberated, temporarily occupied and populated areas where hostilities are taking place.

Children were most affected in Donetsk region – 428, Kharkiv – 267, Kyiv – 117, Mykolaiv – 80, Zaporizhia – 78, Kherson – 74, Chernihiv – 68, Luhansk – 65, Dnipropetrovsk – 34.

Russian occupying forces use schools to cover their units in the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region.

This was reported by the chairman of occupied Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov.

“The racists are using children as human shields,” he wrote. “In Melitopol, the invaders’ equipment is located on the territory of at least five educational institutions. And in some settlements of the Vasyliv district, according to the General Staff, the occupiers have placed personnel in school buildings.”

At the same time, as Fedorov noted, the educational process continues – “children attend educational institutions.”

“Once again, we are convinced: nothing is sacred for the Russian invaders,” the chairman emphasized.

Earlier, Fedorov informed that the occupiers had placed “dragon’s teeth” in the center of Melitopol.

After a full-scale attack on Ukraine on February 24, Russian troops captured part of the Zaporizhzhia region. On February 26, after fighting with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the occupiers entered Melitopol.

The Russians could not capture the regional center. They designated Melitopol as the “regional center” of the occupied part of the region.

At the end of August – the beginning of September, the Ukrainian military launched a counteroffensive. Thousands of square kilometers of the territory of Ukraine were liberated. The gradual advance of the Armed Forces continues.

In the Zaporizhzhia region, the Russian invaders placed their personnel in school buildings. At the same time, the educational process in educational institutions continues.

This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The Russian invaders continue to use educational institutions in the temporarily occupied territory to cover their units. Thus, in some settlements of the Vasyliv district of the Zaporizhzhya region, the occupiers placed personnel in school buildings. At the same time, the educational process continues – children attend educational institutions.

According to the General Staff, on the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson directions, the areas of Temyrivka, Chervone, Mali Shcherbaki and Plavna settlements of the Zaporizhzhia region and the city of Kherson were affected by enemy fire. There are casualties among civilians.

The Russian occupiers plan to introduce a 24-hour curfew in the population centers of the temporarily occupied territory of the Zaporizhzhia region. Earlier, in Tokmak and Pology of the Zaporizhzhia region, the invaders lost more than 100 people wounded and a cache of ammunition.

The scale of what is happening in the temporarily Russian-occupied city of Mariupol, Donetsk region, is terrible and huge. The humanitarian situation there worsens every day. This was stated by Petro Andryushchenko, adviser to the Mariupol city chairman.

According to his information, the city still remains without heat, in the absolute majority, in places without electricity.

“Attempts to heat with electric heaters put a load on the electrical system that it cannot withstand. Mortality, morbidity, first of all cold diseases are increasing. There are certain problems with the supply of bread, which is inherent not only to Mariupol, but to the entire occupied part of the Donetsk region. As a result, the people of Mariupol are forced to line up in huge hour-long queues for free bread that is brought to them and a plate of warm porridge. For many, this is the only way to get warm food,” Andryushchenko said.

Currently, according to the chairman’s adviser, there are approximately 120,000 Mariupol residents in the city. Which is 5 times less than it was before the start of a full-scale war. Mortality is 7 times higher than it was before February 24.

“Now we are observing another tendency to decrease the number. Many have decided to leave the city, at least for the winter, and spend the winter as the only way to survive, so near the border between Ukraine and Russia, in the Novoazovsk region, there is a traffic jam of more than 30 km for the second day. Finally, people started making the right decisions and not trusting the promises of the occupiers,” said Petro Andryushchenko.

Earlier, Andryushchenko said that the death rate of civilians is increasing in Mariupol. In a week, 250 people die, and 75% of residents are without access to heat — approximately 85,000 people. One hospital is fully operational in the city and the medical collapse is gaining momentum. The situation in medicine is critical.

In occupied Luhansk, hospitals are filled with wounded occupiers, doctors cannot cope with their treatment. The Luhansk Regional Military Administration reports this in “The number of hospitalized patients has increased significantly, but supplies to medical institutions have not. There is already a shortage of the most necessary things. Therefore, additional wheelchairs and anti-bedsore mattresses are being sought from local residents,” the message reads.

According to the regional military administration, the medics themselves in the occupied territories admit that they are not ready to receive such a large number of wounded. In addition, this year, both the structure of the injury and the principles of providing medical care have changed, according to the report. If earlier doctors usually worked with bullet wounds and monotrauma, now it is polytrauma, and mostly associated with mine and explosive injuries.

In Donbas, the occupiers are trying to completely seize the Luhansk region. The last large city of the region, Lysychansk, was abandoned by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on July 3.

On October 28, the head of the regional administration, Serhii Gaidai, reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine were advancing one to three kilometers in the region every day. As of December 4, 13 settlements in the Luhansk region were deoccupied, he noted.