Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
As of 10 a.m. on April 12, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and other sources that need confirmation, 186 (+3 per day) children have died and 344 children (+2 per day) have been injured since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.
It is impossible to establish the actual number of dead and wounded children due to the fact that the occupying forces are actively fighting in Ukrainian cities.
A 1.5-year-old girl died as a result of the shelling of a house in Mariupol by Russian troops.
During the fixation of criminal offenses committed in the village Gavronshchyna, Bucha district, Kyiv region, a shot dead civilian car was found. The bodies of five people were buried nearby, including two children aged 1 and 14 years.
The body of a 5-year-old child with multiple injuries resulting from the rupture of an artillery shell was found in Kyiv Region.
According to UNICEF in Ukraine, due to the war of 3.2 million children left in their homes, about 1.6 million children are at risk of living on the brink of starvation and at risk of food shortages.
To date, daily bombings and shelling have damaged 938 educational institutions, 87 of which have been completely destroyed.
The actions of the Russian occupation forces are a direct violation of Ukraine's children's right to life and security, guaranteed by the Hague and Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during Russia's Military Invasion of Ukraine and the expert mission set up by the OSCE participating States under the Moscow Mechanism to take into account these facts of war crimes and crimes against humanity and violations of children's rights in Ukraine.
I call on international partners to close the skies over Ukraine and provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!