Espreso Global Russia-Ukraine war 589 children killed, nearly 1,700 injured amid ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine

589 children killed, nearly 1,700 injured amid ongoing Russian aggression in Ukraine

12 November, 2024 Tuesday

10:42

As a result of Russian armed aggression, 1,681 Ukrainian children have been injured, and 589 have been killed. The actual numbers may be higher

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The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported the information.

As of the morning of November 12, 2024, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 589 children were killed, and over 1,681 sustained injuries of varying severity.

The regions with the highest numbers of affected children are:

Donetsk – 598,
Kharkiv – 459,
Kherson – 187,
Dnipropetrovsk – 190,
Kyiv – 133,
Zaporizhzhia – 154,
Mykolaiv – 117.

On November 11, as a result of the Russian attack on Ukraine's Kryvyi Rih in the Dnipropetrovsk region, two boys aged 2 and 10, along with a 2-month-old girl, were killed, and an 11-year-old boy was injured.

Additionally, five children were injured in an attack onZaporizhzhia: boys aged 4, 16, and 17 and girls aged 15 and 17.

On the same day, a 16-year-old teenager was injured in a strike on Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region.