Prosecutor General’s Office: 454 children died in Ukraine and 337 minors are considered missing
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, 337 children are considered missing, and 454 minors have died at the hands of the aggressors.
This is reported by the Office of the Prosecutor General.
As noted by the prosecutor’s office, as of the morning of January 15, 2023, at least 1,348 children suffered.
According to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, the official number of children who died is 454.
The number of victims in the war increased – 894 children, who received injuries of various degrees of severity.
Juvenile prosecutors emphasize that these numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories.
Children were most affected in:
- Donetsk region – 429,
- Kharkivska – 269,
- Kyivska – 117,
- Mykolaivska – 82,
- Chernihivska – 68,
- Luhansk – 66,
- Khersonska – 83,
- Zaporizhzhia – 81,
- Dnipropetrovsk – 55.
The latest discovered facts of crimes against children:
- On January 14, as a result of an enemy rocket attack on the city of Dnipro, a 9-story residential building was hit. Currently, we know about the dead 15-year-old girl and 14 more injured children, the youngest child is 3 years old. Search operations continue.
3,126 educational institutions were damaged due to bombing and shelling by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. 337 of them were completely destroyed.
In addition, juvenile prosecutors report that they have already found 8,952 children. The prosecutor’s office considers 337 children to be missing.
In addition, the department emphasized that 13,899 children were deported to Russia and the so-called republics, of which only 125 minors were returned home.
In Ukraine, over the past day, on January 14, Russian troops killed 26 civilians and wounded another 81 civilians.
This was announced by the deputy head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
In particular, 21 people died in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 74 residents of the region were injured.
Five dead and four wounded were found in Donetsk region. One person was injured in Sumy region. Two civilians were wounded in the Kherson region.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on January 14, Russian troops carried out three air and 57 missile strikes, as well as 69 attacks from rocket salvo systems, in particular on civilian infrastructure.
According to the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Russian invaders attacked Kherson Oblast 76 times in the past day.
This was announced by the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Yaroslav Yanushevich.
According to him, the invaders fired with artillery, MLRS, mortars, tanks and UAVs. The Russians shelled Kherson 25 times. In particular, enemy shells hit residential buildings. Yesterday, 2 people were injured of varying degrees of severity due to Russian shelling.
During January 14, the Russian military shelled Kherson and Antonivka. This is reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces. Settlements came under the fire of barrel and rocket artillery.
Explosions are heard in Kherson on January 15. Residents report rather loud sounds through local Telegram channels.
“Residents report that loud explosions are heard in the city, take care,” they wrote on the network.
On January 14, certain micro-districts of Kherson and 35 settlements of the region were temporarily disconnected from electricity due to Russian shelling.
The Russian occupiers are shelling Kherson and the region in order to put psychological pressure on the civilian population, and there is no military purpose in their attacks.