War against Ukraine: How many children have died or been displaced since the Russian invasion began?

The regions with the greatest numbers of injured children are the occupied area of Donetsk in the east of Ukraine, which was home to 446 injured children, the cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv and Kherson, where a bitter battle was fought between Russian and Ukrainian troops at the end of last year.

They said a further 366 children had disappeared, while 10,383 had been deported to Russia.

This comes as Human Rights Watch published a report that revealed Ukrainian children living in residential institutions in occupied areas had been forcibly transferred to Russia and separated from their families. Other recent reports have described children in occupied areas of Ukraine being sent to Russia on school camps, but have never returned.

The new figures also showed 3,126 educational institutions have been damaged – and 438 entirely destroyed – by the invasion.

In a Telegram post, Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General said: “As of the morning of March 13, 2023, more than 1,398 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation.

"According to the official information of juvenile prosecutors, 464 children died and more than 934 were injured of various degrees of severity.”