Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that as of the morning of October 12, 2022, more than 1,230 children were affected in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. 422 children died and more than 808 were injured of various degrees of severity.
Source: Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine
The numbers are not final, as work is ongoing to establish them in places of active hostilities, in temporarily occupied and liberated territories of Ukraine.
“The most affected children were in the Donetsk region – 407, 254 – in the Kharkiv region, 116 – in the Kyiv region, 76 – in the Mykolaiv region, 68 – in the Chernihiv region, 68 – in the Zaporizhzhia region, 64 – in the Luhansk region, 57 – in the Kherson region, 31 – in the Dnipropetrovsk region.”
According to juvenile prosecutors, a 5-year-old girl sustained severe injuries to her leg as a result of the shelling of Russian troops in the city of Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk region, on October 11, 2022.
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