Ukraine: 79 Children Killed, 100 Injured in Russian War

At least 79 children were killed and almost 100 were injured after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Ukrinform announced on Saturday.

In a statement on Telegram, the Prosecutor General's Office stated that the most affected children are in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Sumy, Kherson and Zhytomyr regions.

Furthermore, more than 280 educational institutions have been destroyed, in addition to some 110 educational institutions damaged in the Donetsk region, 28 in the Sumy region, 17 in Kyiv and more than ten children's medical institutions.

Russian forces inched towards Kyiv and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities. Officials revealed that more than 1,500 people had been killed as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol.

Ukrainian media reported that air raid sirens sounded Saturday in several cities, including the capital Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro and Kharkiv. It has been more than two weeks after Moscow shocked the world by invading Ukraine.

“Hundreds of thousands of people… are for all intents and purposes besieged,” Stephen Cornish, one of those heading the medical charity’s Ukraine operation, told AFP in an interview.