Russian troops killed over 350 children in Ukraine

KIEV: As many as 353 children have been killed and over 662 injured in Ukraine so far since the beginning of Russia's full scale invasion, as per reports.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, the majority of the children were impacted in the Donetsk region (353), Kharkiv (191), Kiev (116), Chernihiv (68), Luhansk (61), Mykolayiv (53), Kherson (52), and Zaporizhzhia (31).

The Prosecutor General's Office announced on Telegram, "353 children were killed and more than 662 children were injured." 

Attempts are being made to determine casualties in places where hostilities are ongoing, as well as in temporarily occupied and liberated territories, therefore these figures are not final.  The bombing and shelling of educational institutions by the armed Russian forces resulted in damage to 2,138 of them. A 14-year-old girl was injured on July 15 when Russian shells landed in the Donetsk region hamlet of Verkhnokamianske, and a 16-year-old girl was injured when Russian shells landed in the Donetsk region village of Sviato-Pokrovske.

By way of bombing and shelling, the Russian Federation's armed forces damaged a total of 2,138 educational facilities, 221 of which were entirely destroyed.

Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24. With the use of artillery, MLRS, aerial bombs, and ballistic missiles, the Russian troops bombard and destroy major infrastructure facilities and also opened fire in large quantities on Ukrainian cities and villages' civilian areas.  Russian shelling in Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast, 7 killed

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