07/04/2022 12:51

Commissioner: Due to Russian aggression, children die and are injured every day in Ukraine

As of 10 a.m. on April 7, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, 167 children have died and 297 children have been injured (+18 per day).

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.

It became known that as a result of the shelling of the city of Kharkiv on March 22, a 4-year-old boy was seriously injured.

On the road near the village Yahidne, Chernihiv Oblast a 12-year-old girl was burned alive in a car during the shelling in March.

A woman died during the shelling of the Slobidsky district of Kharkiv.  Her three-year-old daughter is in intensive care.

During the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, the aggressor damaged 928 educational institutions due to bombing and shelling, 84 of them were completely destroyed.

The actions of the Russian occupation forces violate the right of children to life, which is enshrined in Article 6 of 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 war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.

I call on international partners to close the skies over Ukraine and provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!