The office of Ukraine's Prosecutor General announced the latest figures on Tuesday.
The biggest number of killed and injured children has been recorded in the Donetsk region (504), followed by Kharkiv (313), Kherson (145), Kyiv (130), Dnipropetrovsk (111), Zaporizhia (100), Mykolaiv (97), Chernihiv (72) and Luhansk (67), the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
At the weekend, a Russian missile attack killed five children in Ukraine's eastern city of Pokrovsk (Donetsk region), according to local officials.
On Monday, a Russian missile strike injured five children in the central city of Novomoskovsk (Dnipropetrovsk region), the authorities in Kyiv said.
Ukrainian officials noted the figures regarding child casualties were not final, as work continued to establish them "in places of combat operations, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories of Ukraine."
Wednesday is day 686 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, launching the largest military campaign in Europe since World War II.
Source: war.ukraine.ua, Interfax-Ukraine, The Guardian