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377 children killed, 733 wounded by Russians in Ukraine: report

27.08.2022 16:00
At least 377 children have been killed and 733 others injured in Ukraine since Russian troops invaded the country on February 24, news agencies reported on Saturday, citing the Ukrainian prosecutor-general.
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“More than 1,110 children have been affected in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation," the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office said in a statement, as quoted in English by the ukrinform.net website.

"As of the morning of August 27, 2022, the official number of children killed did not change over the past day – 377. The number of children injured increased – more than 733," the statement added.

Russian forces have destroyed hundreds of schools and other educational establishments in the country, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office.

"A total of 2,328 educational institutions were damaged in Russian strikes; 289 of them were completely destroyed," it said.

In the early hours of Saturday, a historic building and a school in the centre oKharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, were damaged in Russian shelling, according to the Nexta news service.

Meanwhile, a 29-year-old woman and her two children were killed in Russian shelling of a four-story building iKamianka in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region, Nexta reported.

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Source: IAR, PAP, ukrinform.net