Massacre of children in Ukraine since the beginning of the war and hundreds of schools destroyed

Massacre of children in Ukraine since the beginning of the war. A Russian bombing in parts of Ukraine on 21 January injured a seven-year-old girl in Vovchansk, Kharkiv oblast, and a 17-year-old boy in Studenok village, Sumy oblast, bringing the total number of casualties to 459 children and 914 wounded. This was reported by the prosecutor general’s office in Kiev, which said that out of 13,961 children illegally deported, only 126 were repatriated to Ukraine. The numbers are not final as they do not include data from territories occupied by Russia and areas where hostilities are ongoing. Since the start of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, Russian forces have damaged 3,126 educational facilities in Ukraine, completely destroying 337 of them.

In addition, 125 children smuggled into Russia from the temporarily occupied territories have already been repatriated to Ukraine. In total, the aggressor country kidnapped nearly 14,000 Ukrainian children. The announcement was made by Daria Gerasimchuk, authorized adviser to the President of Ukraine on children’s rights during the opening of the Ukraine is you project within the framework of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Ukrainksa Pravda reports this. “It seems little, but for everyone the fate of a Ukrainian child is at stake,” he said.