Zelenska said how the war affected children in Ukraine

Over two years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 528 Ukrainian children have died, more than 1,200 have been injured and more than 2 million young Ukrainians have been forced to go abroad. This was reported by the first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska in Facebook.

528 children were killed by Russian hands, bullets, missiles, drones. I can't help but recall the losses of the last two weeks: the Putyatin brothers from Kharkiv - seven-year-old Oleksiy, four-year-old Mikhail, ten-month-old Pavlik, who died with their parents in a fire caused by Russian shelling. Dev' yatirich Yaroslav Kamenev from Selidovoi. He was lying with his mum in hospital when she was hit by a Russian missile," Zelenskaya wrote.

She pointed out that at least 1,230 more children have been injured in the two years of war - in more than 330 cases they needed prosthetics.

The first lady also noted that due to Russian aggression, more than two million children were forced to leave the country to escape.

The war has also affected the process of education in schools. More than one million children in Ukraine have switched to online education because the enemy is attacking the frontline regions, and about 2 thousand schools still do not have bomb shelters.

In addition, Zelenska emphasised that the Russian Federation's crimes against children continue. The enemy deports little Ukrainians to its territory, as well as to the occupied regions.

More than 19 thousand children have been kidnapped and taken to themselves by Russia from the occupied territories," she said.

According to Zelenska, because of the war in Ukraine were born a third less babies - 187 thousand in 2023 against 237 thousand in 2021.

The war unleashed by Russia deliberately targets children. But they have us - their adults. We fight for them and will not give them to war. Every day thousands of adults in Ukraine and around the world are treating, releasing from captivity, taking in families who have lost their families, building shelters for schools.... We will not get back these stolen two years of childhood, but we can make sure that in it 24 February In 2022 remains only an episode. A dramatic one, but only a fragment. Have a great, happy, long life," the First Lady summarised.