“Our state does not have accurate data on the number of killed and deported by Russian military children.” This was said by President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky during a meeting with the University Community of the United States, Ukrinform reports.
According to him, it is known about the death of almost 300 children in the previously captured territories of Ukraine as a result of Russian shelling and bombing.
“But there are temporarily captured territories. And we do not know how many people died there, how many victims and how many children were killed or in serious condition. We can understand this only after we return these territories,” Zelensky said.
In addition, according to him, about 500 thousand people were forcibly deported from temporarily captured territories to Russia.
“divided children and adults. They sent, according to our data, to different families or orphanages, boarding schools – where orphans, children without parents. Therefore, this is a tragedy. We do not know this number of children, we do not We know the number of people, we do not know in what condition they were. It was a deportation by force. They took documents from them, they first took their passports from adults, they changed them to Russian, ”said the head of the Ukrainian state.
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