Ukraine Gate -Kiev- March 6, 2022- The Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights, Lyudmila Denisova reported on Telegram that 38 children have been killed and 71 others injured since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
She noted that a one-and-a-half-year-old child died as a result of the bombing of the Russian aggressors in Mariupol during the past 24 hours.
Also, a boy, born in Kharkiv 40 days ago, died of pneumonia, which he contracted during his stay for several days in a bomb shelter in Kharkiv.
As a result of the enemy’s air attack on Bila Tserkva, 15 private homes of the elderly and children were destroyed by rocket-propelled grenades.
The number of casualties is still unknown.
Denisova explained that in the district of Hostomel-Pocha-Irpen, there are up to 70 children in shelters, and there are wounded, but doctors and volunteers are not allowed to see the children.
The Ombudsman stressed that the Russian armed forces continue to gravely violate the fundamental rights of children – the right to life and health, guaranteed to every child in the world under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
“I call on international human rights organizations to take all possible measures to increase pressure on the Russian Federation to end the military aggression against Ukraine,” the Ukrainian Ombudsman said.
