16/04/2022 14:13

Commissioner: Rashists continue to kill Ukrainian children and destroy educational institutions

As of 10 a.m. on April 16, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 200 (+2 per day) children have died and 360 children (+5 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.

Yesterday the enemy fired at “Hurricane”multiple rocket launchers at the Industrial District of Kharkiv.

As a result of the shelling, 5 children were injured, two of whom died, including a 7-month-old baby.

Also today it became known that as a result of detonation of a cluster shell in the Kherson region a 15-year-old boy was wounded.

To date, 1,018 educational institutions have been damaged due to massive bombings and shelling by Ukrainian armed forces, 95 of which have been completely destroyed.

Such actions by the russian occupation forces are a direct violation of the fundamental rights of children - the right to life and health, guaranteed to every child in the world by 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 to take into account these violations of children rights in Ukraine by Russia.

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