29/04/2022 15:17

Commissioner: Ukrainian children die and are injured every day due to Russian aggression

As of 10 a.m. on April 29, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 219 (+ 2 per day) children have died and 398 (+ 5 per day) children have been injured since the Russian invasion in 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 a 10-year-old girl was wounded as a result of shelling by the enemy troops of the village of Tsyrkuny in Kharkiv region.

Chere shelling of the city of Zaporozhye wounded 5 people, including a child.

During the recording of war crimes committed in settlements in the Chernihiv region, it became known that a car exploded on a highway near the village of Krasne, killing children aged 2 and 14.

It was also found out that a 10-year-old boy was injured during the artillery shelling of the Romanov Bridge in the city of Irpin.

A 9-year-old boy was wounded in artillery shelling in Kharkiv.

Such actions by the russian occupation forces are a direct violation of 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 to take into account these facts of Russia's violations of children's rights in Ukraine.

I call on international partners to provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of Russia!