19/05/2022 18:30

Commissioner: Ukrainian children continue to die and be injured from racist bombs and shells

As of May 19, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 231 children (+ 2 per day) have died and 427 children (+3 per day) have been injured since the russian federation invaded Ukraine.

It is impossible to establish the actual number of dead and wounded children due to the fact that the occupying forces are actively fighting in Ukrainian cities.

Yesterday, rescuers found the bodies of a woman and a 2-year-old child under the rubble of a house destroyed in a missile strike in the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region.As a result of the same shelling, children aged 9, 12 and 17 were seriously injured.

It also became known that a 17-year-old girl died due to the bombing of the occupiers of the civilian infrastructure of the city of Polohy, Zaporizhia region.

In the Nikolaev area on the highway eight people, among which the 5-year-old girl exploded on a mini.  All of them received injuries of varying severity.

The actions of the russian occupation forces are a direct violation of Ukraine's children's right to life and security, guaranteed by the Hague and Geneva Conventions and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of russia's violations of children's rights in Ukraine.

 I call on international partners to provide weapons to fight the aggressor country of russia!