UKRAINE, March 15 — Juvenile prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office report 535 dead children in Ukraine as a result of the Russian armed aggression.

More than 1792 children have suffered in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation. As of the morning of March 15, 2024, according to official information from juvenile prosecutors, 535 children were killed and more than 1257 were injured of varying severity.

These figures are not definitive. Work is underway to establish them in the areas of hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

The most affected children are in the following regions: Donetsk – 524, Kharkiv – 338, Kherson – 149, Kyiv – 130, Dnipro – 123, Mykolaiv – 101, Zaporizhzhia – 100.

During the previous day:

  • On March 14, as a result of the shelling by the Russian army of Nikopol, Dnipropetrovsk region, a 7-year-old boy was injured.
  • On March 14, as a result of the hostile shelling of Mazurivka village in Tulchyn district, Vinnytsia region, a 17-year-old boy was injured.

Yesterday, 16 children and their families were evacuated from the dangerous areas of the Kharkiv Oblast, Kharkiv Regional Military Administration head Oleh Syniehubov reported. In total, 89 children have been evacuated from two communities: 30 from Vilkhuvatka and 59 from Velykyi Burluk.

On the topic

Belarus admitted the deportation of Ukrainian children and that the process is being carried out with the support and consent of self-proclaimed President Alexander Lukashenko. The human rights group ZMINA reports this concerning an interview in the Belarusian pro-government publication BELTA with a local “public figure” and “motivational coach” Alexei Talai.

The man spoke about “helping” children from Donbas. The mechanism was carefully thought out so that children from the affected regions could improve their health in Belarusian camps and sanatoriums.

Human rights activists have already documented that the occupation authorities of the territories of Ukraine temporarily occupied by Russia planned to take more than a thousand children and adolescents to the Dubrava children’s health camp in the Soligorsk district of Minsk region (Republic of Belarus). As of the end of April, 350 children from the occupied territories were already in Belarus for “rehabilitation.”