Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 15,233 children have been found, National Police reported.

There are 998 children still missing in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. Three hundred eighty-five children have been deported to Russia.

According to the Prosecutor General, more than 1,500 children have been injured, and more than a thousand have sustained various injuries.

“These figures are not conclusive. Work is underway to establish them in the areas of hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories,” the Prosecutor General’s Office said.

The most significant number of child victims was recorded in Donetsk region – 474. Kharkiv Oblast is second, with 297 children affected by Russian aggression.

Belarus deports Ukrainian children

Belarus recognized the deportation of Ukrainian children with the support of Lukashenko’s regime.

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.

Talai said that he had received “a storm of messages from the so-called parents of Donbas”: “They invited me to visit them and told me their horror stories with tears in their eyes. But before drawing any final conclusions, it was important to see everything with my own eyes,” he said.

The public figure then voiced the Russian narrative that Ukraine has allegedly been shelling Donbas since 2014, despite the Minsk agreements.

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.”

See also

Great Britain has introduced 14 new sanctions in response to Russia’s illegal deportation of Ukrainian children. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly noted that these sanctions are a response to Russia’s attempts to destroy the Ukrainian national identity.

Forced evacuation of children announced in Kharkiv Oblast’s border community. The threat of shelling remains around the clock in Vovchansk. Russian troops are shelling with artillery, aircraft and mortars.