“As a result of the Russian armed aggression, as of March 18, 2022, a total of 109 children were killed and more than 130 children were wounded," the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office said in a statement, as quoted in English by the ukrinform.net website.
Russian forces have struck 439 educational establishments, of which 63 were destroyed, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office.
Russian troops on Friday fired missiles at an airport near Lviv, a city in western Ukraine near the Polish border where hundreds of thousands civilians found refuge far from war's main battlefields, the Reuters news agency reported.
Black smoke rises into the sky from around Lviv airport in western Ukraine on Friday, March 18, 2022. Photo: PAP/Newscom
Earlier this week, Russian forces bombed a theatre where civilians, including children, were sheltering in the besieged southern Ukrainian port of Mariupol, according to local officials.
In the besieged southern port of Mariupol, Russian forces bombed a theatre where civilians, including children, were sheltering, local officials said. Photo: PAP/VROU
US President Joe Biden on Wednesday called Russia's Vladimir Putin a war criminal amid reports of further atrocities committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Poland’s First Lady Agata Kornhauser-Duda has been holding talks with her counterparts from around the world about joining efforts to help the victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to officials.
Kornhauser-Duda and Lithuanian First Lady Diana Nausėdienė this month 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," Kornhauser-Duda and Nausėdienė said in a joint message.
"Let us do everything we can to end this war," they added.
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Source: IAR, PAP, ukrinform.net