Some 263 children killed since Ukraine war outbreak

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has said that 263 children have been killed in the country since the beginning of the war.

Considering the boy who was blown up by a mine on the beach in occupied Mariupol, the number of confirmed victims of Russia's war against Ukraine among children has reached 263, Ukrainskaya Pravda reports, quoting the Prosecutor-General's Office.

On June 3, two people were killed by a mine explosion on the beach in Mariupol, Donetsk region. One of the victims is an 8–year-old boy.

As of the morning of June 7, at least 730 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of Russia's full-scale armed aggression: according to official information of juvenile prosecutors, 263 children were killed, more than 467 children were injured.

These figures are not final, as work is underway to establish them in the places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories.

According to available data, the most affected children were in Donetsk region – 190, Kyiv – 116, Kharkiv – 112, Chernihiv – 68, Luhansk – 53, Kherson – 52, Mykolaiv – 47, Zaporozhye – 29, Sumy region – 17, in Kyiv - 16, in Zhytomyr region – 15.