Гаряча лінія
Гаряча лінія
As of 10 a.m. on April 6, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 167 children (+2 per day) have died and 279 children (+13 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.
4-year-old Sasha, who has been wanted since mid-March, was found dead in Kyiv Region. The boy disappeared after he and his grandmother tried to evacuate from the Vyshhorod district.
Immediately after the start of hostilities, the Russian occupiers bombed the village, blew up bridges and blocked roads. Then the locals decided to evacuate children and women by boat in the direction of the village of Rovzhy. On March 10, two boats were supposed to cross the Kyiv Sea, but one of them capsized. Sasha was in this boat.
Given that the child was in a life jacket, the parents hoped that the child would survive, but the child was shot by the occupiers.
It became known that in Dymer in the Kyiv region, parents were killed in front of children. The father of girl Dasha was shot behind her eyes. The child survived thanks to his grandfather, who covered her with his body.
As a result of shelling by the armed forces of the Russian Federation in Avdiivka, Donetsk region, two young children were injured.
The family of a medical worker from the village of Pryputni, Chernihiv region, was blown up by an anti-tank mine left by the Russians: two parents died, children are in intensive care.
A 13-year-old girl died in the Kharkiv region as a result of shelling of residential buildings in the villages of Mala Rohan and Vilkhivka by the Russian military.
The forced removal of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation continues. The mother-educator of the family-type orphanage together with her 8 foster children, were forcibly deported from Mariupol, Donetsk region, to the city of Saransk in the Russian Federation.
The enemy systematically continues to destroy Ukraine's civilian infrastructure. So far, 927 educational institutions have been damaged by the aggressor during the Russian invasion. 83 of them were completely destroyed.
The actions of the russian occupation forces violate children's rights to life and security, which are 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 and human rights in Ukraine.
I call on international partners to close the skies over Ukraine and provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!