Six children injured in massive strike on Ukraine yesterday - Office of the Prosecutor General

On 29 December alone, six children were injured as a result of massive enemy shelling of Ukrainian cities.

This was reported by the office of the Prosecutor-General of Ukraine.

A 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl were injured in Odessa, and a one-and-a-half-year-old boy was injured in Dnipro. Also hurt teenagers in Lviv, Dnipro and the city of Smela Cherkassy region, - stated in the message.

In addition, as of the morning of 30 December 2023, according to official information of juvenile prosecutors, 513 children were killed and more than 1,167 were injured of varying severity. More than 1,680 children have suffered in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

These figures are not final. Work is continuing to establish them in the places of hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories," the prosecutor's office said.

The most affected children in the following regions: Donetsk region - 497, Kharkiv region - 304, Kherson region - 141, Kyiv region - 129, Dnipropetrovsk region - 105, Zaporizhzhya region - 100, Mykolaiv region - 97, Chernihiv region - 72, Luhansk region - 67.

Recall, on Saturday, 30 December, in Zaporizhzhya, Odessa regions and in Dnipro declared a Day of Mourning for those killed during a massive missile attack of the Russian army on 29 December.

This was reported in the press services of regional military administrations.

It is noted that in Zaporizhzhya the shelling claimed the lives of nine innocent civilians.

In Dnipro, six people were killed as a result of the Russian attack.

The authorities of Odessa also announced mourning for those killed due to Russian shelling. In the city, the number of victims of this morning's missile attack has risen to four.

The number of people killed in the attack on the capital on 29 December rose to 13.