Daria Herasymchuk, an adviser to the Ukrainian president on children’s rights, said a number of maternity hospitals, kindergartens and schools have been destroyed in the country by invading Russian forces, Poland's PAP news agency reported.
"About one and a half million children remain in areas affected by shelling and under siege, including orphans and children with disabilities who require immediate assistance," Herasymchuk was quoted as saying.
The Polish and Lithuanian first ladies have appealed for solidarity with Ukrainian children amid Russia's war against Ukraine.
"We call on the politicians, the clergy, organizations and all people of good will around the world to show solidarity with the Ukrainian children - the defenseless victims of the Russian aggression," Poland's Agata Kornhauser-Duda and Lithuania's Diana Nausėdienė said in a joint message earlier this week.
"Let us do everything we can to end this war," they added.
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Source: PAP, ukrinform.net