In Ukraine, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, 702 objects of critical infrastructure have been damaged

A total of 35,000 objects were damaged, said First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Yevhen Yenin.

“We are talking, in particular, about gas pipelines, electric substations, bridges and so on,” Yenin said.

A month ago, the deputy minister reported that 32,000 objects and more than 700 objects of critical infrastructure were damaged.

As a result of the full-scale Russian attack on the territory of Ukraine, 6,884 civilians were killed. Another 10,947 were injured to varying degrees. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights informs about this.

Among the dead are 2,719 men and 1,832 women, 175 girls and 216 boys, as well as 38 children and 1,904 adults, whose gender is still unknown.

The largest number of victims is in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

However, the actual death toll is “significantly higher” because there are delays in receiving information from some places where the fighting has been intense and many reports are still awaiting confirmation.

For example, this applies to both the de-occupied territories and the still-occupied Mariupol, Lysychansk, Popasnaya and Severodonetsk.

Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN to resume the application of the UN Charter in the issue of the legitimacy of the Russian Federation’s presence in the UN, to deprive the Russian Federation of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN as a whole.

So far, 41 children have been returned to the territory of Ukraine.

During the war, the Russian occupiers deported 179 children from the Kharkiv region to Russia. “Suspilne Kharkiv” writes about this with reference to the response of the Ukrainian National Center for Peacebuilding.

“Since February 24, 2022, 179 children have been deported and illegally relocated from Kharkiv region to the territory of the Russian Federation, of which 41 children have already been returned to Ukraine,” said the response to the request.

As Oleksandr Smirnov, director of the Ukrainian National Center for Peacebuilding, said, the occupiers deported children to Krasnodar Krai and Rostov Oblast. Information about the children’s health, places and conditions of stay at the Peace Building Center was not provided.

The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine noted that the exact number of children deported by the occupiers has not yet been determined. However, it is known that the invaders took 60 children from family-type orphanages and foster families in Kharkiv region. Pretrial investigation is being conducted in 15 criminal proceedings regarding the illegal deportation of 45 children.

In December, three children who were taken to the “Vedmedyk” children’s camp during the occupation of Kharkiv region were returned to Ukraine. We had to return the children through Europe.

In October, 37 deported children from the Kharkiv region were returned to Ukraine.

The largest number of children were deported from the Kupian and Dergachiv districts of Kharkiv region.

It will be impossible to identify Ukrainian children who have already been adopted by the Russians, “it is worth saying goodbye to them,” the regional human rights center said.

During the full-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the Russians deported Ukrainian children to at least 57 regions of Russia. About 400 minors were adopted on the territory of the aggressor state. Kateryna Rashevska, a human rights activist and a lawyer at the Regional Center for Human Rights, told about it.

“We know from open sources that Ukrainian children were taken to at least 57 regions of Russia. In particular… to Sakhalin. There is also a fragment of an interview with a girl who is in Dagestan,” Rashevska said.

According to the interlocutor, in cases where children are deported together with their parents, the Russians try to avoid the concentration of Ukrainians in one region, so they are “dispersed” in order to integrate into Russian society. At the same time, the Russian Federation does not allow human rights defenders to visit deported children, which violates the Geneva Convention, Rashevska said.

The human rights activist noted that, according to the latest data, Russians adopted or adopted about 400 Ukrainian children.

“It will be impossible to identify Ukrainian children after they have been transferred to Russian families. And when we talk about these 400 Ukrainian children who are already in families, it is worth saying goodbye to them. Yes, maybe we will be able to return them after the end war,” Rashevska added.

According to the lawyer, there are currently two boys living in the Moscow region who have a grandmother in Ukraine, and if they get used to being with their Russian parents, “then they will become family for them.”

“I don’t know whether the removal of these children and their return to Ukraine will meet the interests of the children. The Russians are committing genocide with their actions.

“Regardless of whether they adopt, take under guardianship, or under temporary guardianship,” Rashevska emphasized.

In June, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that 307,423 children were deported from Ukraine. According to the US State Department, the Russians deported about 260,000 children in July. By December 28, the Ukrainian authorities managed to confirm the deportation of 13,876 children — the exact number of victims cannot be established due to active hostilities and the temporary occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine.

In December, the Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russians had taken at least 40 children from the captured Severodonetsk and Lysychansk to the Stavropol Territory of the Russian Federation.