(ANSA) - ROME, JULY 21 - Russian troops have killed at least 358 children in Ukraine since February 24, according to data, updated to date, provided by the Ukrainian General Prosecutor's Office and reported by the Ukrinform agency.
"To date, more than 1,039 children have suffered in Ukraine as a result of the Russian armed aggression. According to official information provided by the juvenile courts: 358 children have been killed and more than 681 have suffered injuries of varying degrees of severity," wrote the press service. of the Pgu on Telegram.
The figures - specifies the Prosecutor's Office - are not definitive, as they do not consider various areas where hostilities are taking place.
Most of the victims of minors, including deaths and injuries, were recorded in the Donetsk region (361), in the Kharkiv region (194), in the Kiev region (116), in the Chernihiv region (68), in the Luhansk region (61), in the Mykolaiv region (53), in the Kherson region (52) and in the Zaporizhzhia region (40).
Yesterday, 20 July - Ukrinform reports quoting the Ukrainian General Prosecutor - a 13-year-old boy was killed and a 15-year-old girl was injured in the Russian bombing of the city of Kharkiv.
It was also reported that a 16-year-old girl was injured on 19 June in the bombing of artillery in the village of Ivanivka, Izium district, Kharkiv region.
Furthermore, according to the monitoring platform for the collection of evidence of war crimes, four children between the ages of 7 and 15 died in Russian bombings on residential neighborhoods in Mariupol, Donetsk region, between February 24 and March 29.
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