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Last week, the Lviv City Council filled a square with empty strollers. 109 people, as many as children killed in the Russian attack Since the invasion of the country almost a month ago. Today, that number has 121.
According to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office, 121 children have been confirmed dead so far, others 167 injured. The capital Kyiv registered the highest number of injuries with 61, including 41 in Kharkiv and 40 in Donetsk.
The data is still provisional as the location of the attack cannot be checked Active hostilities and in temporarily occupied territoriesreferring to the Donetsk and Luhansk republics and the areas occupied by Russian troops in the offensive.
In both regions, Ukraine also condemned Nearly 2,400 children deported, was forcibly sent to a Russian city without his parents. According to the country’s embassy in the United States, 2,389 Ukrainian children were illegally deported. “It didn’t help them, it was kidnapping,” they denounced.
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The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the incidents.In a tweet from the attorney general, he noted that this was war crimes Collecting and investigating.
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On Monday, it was reported that the city of Mariupol, long besieged by Russian troops, had been forcibly deported.Ukrainian MP Inna Sovsun pointed out that many citizens, mainly women and children, are Forced to cross the border into Russia.
“According to the Mariupol City Council, thousands of Ukrainians were rounded up in Mariupol and taken to ‘selection camps’ before being placed in villages far from Russia. Gulag is back“, wrote the deputy.
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“What the occupiers are doing today has been seen by older generations, in the horrific events of World War II When the Nazis captured thousands by force. It’s hard to imagine people being forcibly deported to another country in the 21st century,” Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boichenko told CNN.
More than 5 million displaced children
After nearly a month of war, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has estimated that there are 3.48 million Ukrainian refugees, most of them women, children and the elderly.The number of children could reach 2.2 million, according to UNICEF, which warns that almost 3.3 million people had to move to another part of the country, far from his home.
“In these increasingly dramatic times, our office tells us that there are 3.3 million internally displaced children,” he explained. Andrea Iacomini, spokeswoman for UNICEF in Italy, said in a statement. “They need everything, they’re traumatized, they’re saddled with The indelible scars left by this conflict and the siege of many cities”.
Yacomini also warned that “over time, they are more at risk of trafficking and exploitation, extreme hunger and disease,” so “Aid and protection must be strengthened Otherwise their situation will deteriorate and they will pay dearly for a war they do not want. “