By the morning of October 18, at least 1,240 children had been killed or injured in Ukraine "as a result of the full-scale armed aggression unleashed by Russia," the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office said in a statement, as quoted by the ukrinform.net website.
The statement added that, according to official data from juvenile prosecutors, "425 children died and more than 815 sustained injuries of various severity."
In one of the most recent announcements, investigators said they had found four children in a mass grave in the city of Lyman in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
Another boy was buried by his mother in her own yard, the Nexta news service reported on Tuesday.
It quoted Ukrainian police as saying that all five died from shrapnel wounds as a result of Russian shelling.
Russian forces have destroyed hundreds of schools and other educational establishments in Ukraine, according to Ukrainian authorities.
The country’s defence ministry has said that more than 2,000 schools have been damaged or destroyed nationwide since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, according to a report last week by the euronews.com website.
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Source: IAR, PAP, ukrinform.net