61 children killed and 100 injured in Ukraine since the russian invasion began

61 children have been killed and 100 injured since Russia invaded Ukraine, announced Lyudmila Denisova, the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights.

In Mariupol a 6 year-old-girl died of dehydration after being buried in under a building that was destroyed by Russian shelling. Rescue workers recovered her body from the rubble. 

This is the first time in dozens of years (apparently, since the Nazi invasion) that a child has died of dehydration in Mariupol, Denisova added. 

In the city of Malyn, in the oblast of Zhytomyr, seven residential buildings were destroyed on Vokzalna Street. Five people were killed, among them two infants. 

“Such actions by the Russian army pose a direct threat to the lives and health of peaceful civilians, contradicting international human rights laws, violating the fundamental rights of children, their right to life, safety, and health,” said Denisova. 

In the city of Sumy, 22 people died, three of them children, during an airstrike that destroyed apartment. Eight others were wounded.