The US embassy in Kyiv, citing Ukrainian Foreign Ministry sources, said Russian forces had abducted 2,389 children from Donetsk and Luhansk.
Kyiv has repeatedly accused Moscow of smuggling children from Mariupol and that it directs civilians to flee to areas occupied by Russia.
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Russian forces have illegally removed 2,389 Ukrainian children from Donetsk and Luhanks oblasts to Russia. This is not assistance. It is kidnapping.
– US Embassy Kyiv (@USEmbassyKyiv) March 22, 2022
Prosecutor Irina Venediktova said: “Russian forces are not only targeting and killing our children, but forcing them to go to Russia. The investigation is ongoing. “
Russian forces are not only targeting and killing our children, but also forcibly moving them to the RF. Investigation is ongoing on the forcible transfer of 2,389 children from temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine to Russia. @MFA_Ukraine #RussianWarCrimes
– Iryna Venediktova (@VenediktovaIV) March 21, 2022
More than 100 children have lost their lives in the war in Ukraine
According to Ukrainian authorities, 117 children have lost their lives in the 27 days that last war.
The number of dead children was made public by the Ukrainian Parliament.
The number of injured children is 155.
The largest number of casualties, according to the same data, is recorded in the capital, Kyiv, followed by Kharkiv and Chernihiv.
According to the United Nations, at least 925 people have been killed, including 75 children.
7 ️117 UKRAINIAN COUNTRY VBILA KRAGNA-TERRORIST
🔷 Станом на 22 березня загинуло 117 дітей, 155 предно. The youngest child was killed in Kiev-58, Kharkiv-40, Chernigov-31, Donetsk-30, Mykolavsky-24, Kiev-16, Zhytomyr-15, Kherson-14.
– Verkhovna Rada України (@verkhovna_rada) March 22, 2022
In Donetsk, children were trapped in the Mariupol sanatorium
Children, most of whom are orphans, who were trapped in her sanatorium Mariupola Ukrainian port besieged by Russian forces, were transferred to one of the two capitals of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, relatives told the French Agency today.
A total of 19 children and teenagers, aged 4 to 17, lived for about two weeks in the icy basements of this sanatorium, which specializes in treating lung disease, while Russian rockets fell not far from the building.
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