11/03/2022 12:55

Commissioner: 78 children killed and more than 100 injured in Russian invasion in Ukraine

As of 10 a.m. on March 11, 2022, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, 78 children have been killed and more than 100 injured.

 It is currently impossible to establish accurate data on the number of killed and wounded residents of Mariupol and Volnovakha in the Donetsk region and the city of Irpin in the Kyiv region.

 Yesterday, a father and his 15-year-old son, who came under fire from Russian militants in their own car, applied to the Brovary Hospital in Skibin, Kyiv Region.  They have shrapnel wounds.

 In Nizhyn, Chernihiv Oblast, enemy aviation damaged secondary school, children's school, and medicine clinic.

 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.

 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 Ukrainian sky!

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