"More than 2 million children had to leave Ukraine due to the invasion by Russia," first lady Olena Zelenska wrote on Facebook, publishing a photo taken from Time magazine's Top 100 from last year, in which the little patients of the Okhmatdyt hospital await another Russian attack in the hospital shelter.
Ukrinform reports it.
Zelenska recalls, on the second anniversary of the war, that "528 children were killed by Russian hands, bullets and hedron missiles".
At least 1,230 children were injured and in more than 330 cases they needed prosthetics.
“More than 2 million children have left the country to escape. More than a million children in Ukraine are studying completely online as the enemy attacks front-line regions. And a number of schools – about 2,000 – still have no shelters,” she emphasized she.
More than 19,000 children have been abducted by Russia from the temporarily occupied territories: "We have a third fewer births, 187,000 in 2023 compared to 237,000 in 2021," she said.
"The war unleashed by Russia deliberately targets children. But they have us, their adults. We are fighting for them and will not hand them over to war," the first lady wrote.
And she said that it is impossible to return the two stolen years of childhood, but it is possible to make sure that February 24, 2022 remains only "an episode. Dramatic, but only a fragment. Have a great, happy, long life".
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