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Ukraine, Ivan, Sofia, Polina and the others: many children among the victims of the conflict

A constantly growing budget. The death toll during the Russian invasion of Ukraine is rising. “Most of these civilians were killed by wide-ranging explosive weapons, including the heavy artillery fire, rocket launchers and air raidsExplained the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, at the opening of the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

According to the United Nations, at least 102 civilians, including 7 children, have been killed since Thursday, while the injured are 304. But “the actual numbers are, I fear, considerably higher», Bachelet specified. The Ministry of Health of Kiev last night spoke of more than 1,600 injured and at least 352 Ukrainian victims.

Alisa Hlans is one of them. She was 7 years old and she died from the attack on Okhtyrka kindergarten (located about an hour’s drive from Ukraine’s northeastern border), which was hit by a rocket containing cluster bombs – prohibited by the 2008 United Nations convention, to which neither Russia nor Ukraine have acceded -. The little girl died in the hospital the day after the attack.

Polina was in the last year of elementary school in Kiev. A Russian sabotage group has targeted the car in which he was traveling with his parentson a street in the north-west of the capital: his brother and sister were taken to hospital.

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Among the victims are also five people from the same family, who were trying to escape the attack with two cars, but who were hit by enemy fire near Nova Kakhovk. Between them, Sofia, 6, Ivan, a few weeksand two grandparents.

“The war in Ukraine no longer concerns only the 500,000 children of Donbass who have been struggling since 2014 with a conflict in Eastern Ukraine, but has spread to the whole country, putting 7 and a half million children at risk, who are the main victims of all wars, due to the physical and emotional traumas they suffer and which they will never forget ”, commented Acp – Cultural Association of Pediatricians – and CBS – Center for Child Health. “We demand compliance with international child protection conventions and obligations and allow humanitarian agencies to reach children quickly and safely. We demand that hospitals, schools and kindergartens never be considered war targets“.

Source: Vanity Fair

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