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MADRID, 30 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Ukrainian Children’s Prosecutor’s Office has reported 219 children have died and 398 have been injured in attacks carried out by Russia since the beginning of its invasion of the country, on February 24, until this Saturday.
Most of the child victims, counting deaths and injuries, have been recorded in the Donetsk region with 131, followed by the capital kyiv region with 129, Kharkov (95), Chernigov (68), Mikolaiv ( 43), Kherson (44), Luhansk (37), Zaporizhia (27), Sumy (17) and Zhytomyr (15).
Likewise, the Prosecutor’s Office has denounced that 1,570 educational institutions have suffered material damage since the beginning of the invasion, 111 of which have been completely destroyed.
The United Nations has estimated some 2,900 civilians killed and more than 3,200 wounded since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Of the total number of victims, the UN lists approximately 210 dead children and 309 wounded since the beginning of the war.
