661 Ukrainian Children Killed Since Full-Scale Invasion, Prosecutor General Reports
Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at least 661 children have been killed and more than 1,400 have been injured to varying degrees.
The Gaze reports on this, referring to a statement made by Ukraine's Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko on Telegram.
The prosecutor recalled that UN Security Council Resolution No. 1261 defines six of the most serious crimes against children during wartime, and all six, according to him, are being committed by Russia “every day, here, in front of the eyes of the world.”
Investigators are currently investigating 5,363 criminal cases related to war crimes against children. As a result of Russian aggression, 661 children have been killed, another 2,203 have been injured, more than 4,500 schools and kindergartens and 1,294 hospitals have been destroyed or damaged, and more than 19,000 children have been abducted and deported.
“After each Russian attack on peaceful cities, we see the same thing over and over again: children killed, children wounded, lives destroyed. This is unspeakable pain that knows no bounds,” said the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in his statement.
On October 26 alone, Russia carried out new strikes on civilian targets: as a result of a night attack with “shahids” on Kyiv, a 19-year-old girl and her mother were killed, and seven other children were wounded. On the same day, a Russian strike on a minibus in the Sumy region injured children aged 8 and 15.
“This is not a coincidence. It is a deliberate act of terror,” he emphasized.
“Each case is evidence of a deliberate policy of terror — an attempt to destroy Ukrainians as a nation. We will do everything to ensure that all war criminals, from the perpetrators to the Russian leadership, are brought to justice. These crimes have no statute of limitations,” the Prosecutor General of Ukraine stressed.
As The Gaze informed earlier, according to a new study by Yale University, the number of places where Ukrainian children are being held in Russia has risen sharply, with more than 210 locations identified for their re-education and militarization.