21/04/2022 14:34

Commissioner: Every day in Ukraine there are more children - victims of Russian aggression

As of 10 a.m. on April 21, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 208 (+3 per day) children have died and 376 children (+3 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 as a result of shelling of objects of civil infrastructure of the city of Nikolaev the 11-year-old girl was wounded.

As a result of artillery shelling by the russian military to the village Nova Zorya, Belozersky district, Kherson region, and a shell hit a residential building, killing two people, including a 16-year-old boy.

A 13-year-old boy was injured during the shelling of the town of Kreminna in the Severodonetsk district of Luhansk region.

It became known that in the village of Klavdiyevo-Tarasovo, Bucha district, Kyiv region, the russian military shot dead a civilian car in which a man with two daughters aged 7 and 11 was driving.  The children received severe head injuries.  The youngest child died without regaining consciousness, the eldest was rescued.

The body of a 15-year-old girl who received a fatal lung injury was found on the territory of the Borodyanka Shelter in Kyiv Region.

Law enforcement agencies have established information that a father and his 7-year-old daughter were injured as a result of the shelling of the village of Horenychi in Kyiv Region.

The aggressor state violates 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!