17/04/2022 13:15

Commissioner: Ukrainian children are victims of Russian aggression every day

As of 10 a.m. on April 17, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations and other sources that need confirmation, 202 (+2 per day) children have died and 361 children (+1 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.

As a result of the shelling of the village.  A 15-year-old boy died in Gavrylivka, Kherson Region - the occupiers fired on a group of children who were photographing their equipment on a mobile phone.  The boy was wounded and later died at the hospital.

Yesterday in the Izium district in the Kharkiv region, the occupiers fired at a car in which a family from the city of Izium  was trying to evacuate.  A 15-year-old girl was injured.

In the village of Lytvynivka, Kyiv region, teenagers went for a walk to an abandoned building.  A 17-year-old boy just opened the door when the explosion occurred.  Fortunately, all the boys survived.  One of the victims suffered head injuries, but did not need to be hospitalized.

A 12-year-old child was also injured in the shelling of the town of Polohy in the Zaporizhia region.

According to the Trostyanets City Hall of Sumy Region, 5 children died because of mines and streamers in the city and its environs during the war.

To date, 1,018 educational institutions have been damaged by massive bombings and shelling by russian 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!