These numbers, reported on Telegram on Friday, are not final - as work is underway to establish the figures in the areas of hostilities, as well as in the temporarily occupied and recently liberated territories.
Most children were injured and killed in the Donetsk region - 492, Kharkiv - 304, Kherson - 132, Kyiv - 129, Zaporizhzhia - 99, Mykolaiv - 97, Dnipro - 96, Chernihiv - 72, Luhansk - 67.
The latest addition to this grim statistic is a 16-year-old Ukrainian boy killed on October 26 as a result of Russian shelling of Pozhnya village (Okhtyrka district, Sumy region).
Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian children have been displaced since Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. This includes children who were forcibly relocated to Russia, effectively kidnapped and cut off from their families by the invaders under the pretext of "evacuation to safety". Despite an ongoing international investigation, the actual number of such cases is hard to determine - with estimates ranging from 20,000 to more than 700,000.
On 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his commissioner for children's rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, alleging their criminal responsibility for the unlawful deportation and transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia.
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Source: Ukrinform