So far, 71 children have died in Ukraine, according to a congressional official.
Kyiv, Ukraine:
At least 71 children have been killed and more than 100 injured in Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the war on February 24, a Ukrainian parliament official said on Thursday.
The death toll was announced amid outrage over Wednesday’s bombing at a children’s hospital in Mariupol that officials said killed three people, including a girl.
“Since the beginning of the invasion of Russia and until 11 a.m. (09:00 GMT) on March 10, 71 children have been killed and more than 100 injured,” said Lyudmyla Denisova, the nation’s key person. human rights association, wrote in a Telegram message. .
The hospital was attacked as Mariupol, a southeastern Ukrainian port, was besieged by Russian troops and pro-Russian separatists from the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
Sources said 17 adults were also injured in the bombing.
In Malyn, in the western Zhytomyr region, three children and two others were killed when seven houses were destroyed in the airstrikes, according to Denisova, who cited several examples of children dying in the attacks. air raid.
On Wednesday night, two women and two children were killed when a shell hit their home in Slobozhanske, a village in the eastern region of Izium, Denisova said, adding that a five-year-old girl survived.
In Irpin, not far from the capital Kyiv, a 10-year-old girl was seriously injured and is fighting for her life in hospital.
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