24/03/2022 12:18

Commissioner: Children continue to die in Ukraine. Each of these facts is a crime against humanity

As of 10 a.m. on March 24, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 128 children (+7 per day) have died and 172 children (+5 per day) have been injured since the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

 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.

 11-year-old Ukrainian gymnast Kateryna died under the rubble in Mariupol.  The shell of the russian occupiers hit the house where the girl was at the time.

 As a result of mass shelling of Rubizhne, Luhansk region, 6 were wounded, 4 died, 2 of them children.

 In the city of Bucha, Kyiv region, russian soldiers ruthlessly shot dead a car with a family, a mother and two children aged 4 and 9.  Everyone died.

 As a result of daily bombings and shelling, 566 (+18 per day) educational institutions were damaged.  73 of them were completely destroyed.  It is more than 230 schools, 155 kindergartens.

 Such actions of the russian occupation forces are a direct violation of the Hague and Geneva Conventions.  The aggressor continues to defiantly 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.  Each of these facts is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

 I call on NATO countries to close the skies over Ukraine!  It can save hundreds of lives of civilians, our children!

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