Kiev (EFE)
“During the last day, the enemy carried out 45 shelling attacks, firing 216 shells,” the head of the Kherson Oblast Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, said on his Telegram channel, reporting that Russian forces also attacked the area with planes and artillery.
“Unfortunately, there are victims among the civilian population: 1 person died and another was injured,” he added.
The military chief of this Ukrainian region partially occupied by Russia also assured that a total of 90 people were evacuated from the area hardest hit by the attacks by Russian forces.
Almost 500 children dead since the Russian invasion
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Children’s Prosecutor’s Office today published new data on war-affected children.
A total of 466 children have died since the large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine began on February 24 last year, and more than 943 were injured of varying severity,” according to a statement from the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office posted on his account. from Telegram.
The last of the minors to join the list of victims was 16 and lost his life on Tuesday, March 29, in the Kharkov region, in southeastern Ukraine, when a car exploded as a result of the explosion of a Russian mine.
The Kharkov region was partially occupied by Russia at the beginning of the war and later vacated by Ukrainian forces.
The Russian army has left numerous active antipersonnel mines in the territories liberated by Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian prosecution statistics, most minor victims were killed or resulted in injuries in the provinces of Kharkov, Kiev, Jershon, Zaporiyia and Mykolaiv (south).
These regions have in common that they have been occupied by Russia at some point or have been the target of intense bombing.
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office has also reported material damage, as a result of the Russian invasion, in 3,126 educational institutions.
A total of 438 of them have been totally destroyed by Russian armed attacks, according to the source.
