23/03/2022 13:36

Commissioner: Russian terrorists continue to violate children's fundamental rights to life and health

As of 10 a.m. on March 23, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need to be confirmed, 121 children have died and 167 children 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.

 Two dead children in a day in Rubizhne, Luhansk region.  A russian shell hit a high-rise building.  The shell exploded on the fifth floor.  Rescuers found three dead, two of them children.

 In the Donetsk region, the russian military continues to shell cities and civilian housing.  The strikes damaged at least 43 civilian properties, including homes, a school, a kindergarten and a church.  A 9-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy were killed by russian weapons, and three children were injured.

 In Bucha, Kyiv region, the occupiers shot a father with many children in front of his 14-year-old son, who was riding bicycles for medicine.  The child received two bullet wounds.

 As a result of daily bombings and shelling, 548 educational institutions were damaged.  72 of them were completely destroyed.  It is more than 220 schools, 155 kindergartens.

 Such actions by the armed forces of the Russian Federation violate 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 call on the international community and international human rights organizations to help end the military attack on the Russian Federation.

 I insist, NATO countries - close the sky !!

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