16/03/2022 15:04

Commissioner: Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, 103 children have died and more than 100 children have been injured

As of 10 a.m. on March 16, 2022, according to the Unified Register of Pre-Trial Investigations, as well as other sources that need confirmation, 103 children have died and more than 100 children have been injured since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began.

It is not possible to establish the actual number of dead and wounded children due to the inability to inspect the scene and the active hostilities of the occupying forces in Ukrainian cities.

Today, 1.5 million children have already left Ukraine due to the fighting of the aggressor state.

So far, it has not been possible to evacuate 37 children from the orphanage in Polohy, Zaporizhia Oblast, who are in a bomb shelter.

Military medic Olga Semidyanova from Manganese city, Dnipropetrovsk region, was killed in battles with the Russian invader.  She has 12 children left.  Olga was awarded the heroine's mother prize for giving birth to six children and taking the same amount from an orphanage.

For the past 24hrs, 80 people were injured in Mykolayiv region, including two children.

Once again, educational institutions came under fire from the Russian occupiers: a preschool in Severodonetsk and a secondary school in Kharkiv.  As a result of the bombing of a school in Kharkiv, the building was almost destroyed.

To date, bombings and shelling have damaged more than 400 educational institutions, 59 of which have been completely destroyed.

The actions of the Russian Federation violate the right to life of children guaranteed by Article 6 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and prove that Russia is a terrorist state and its political and military leadership criminals.

I call on international human rights organizations to take all possible measures to increase pressure on the Russian Federation to end military aggression against Ukraine.

I insist, NATO countries - close the sky !!

@NATO #closethesky #закрийтенебонадукраіною