UNICEF: OVER ONE MILLION CHILDREN BECOME REFUGEES

Thu 10 March 2022:

Almost half of of some 2.3 million people who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine are children, UNICEF says, confirming at least 37 child fatalities in 15 days.

Most of the children crossed into Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, and Romania with their families, according to the UN children’s agency.

Meanwhile, a Ukrainian parliament official said at least 71 children have been killed in Ukraine since Russia began its attacks on February 24.

“From the start of the Russian invasion and up to 11:00 am (0900 GMT) on March 10, 71 children have been killed and more than 100 wounded,” Lyudmyla Denisova, parliament’s point person on human rights, wrote in a Telegram message.

Around half of Kyiv’s population – about two million people – have now fled the capital, the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Thursday.

Ukrainian forces including citizen-soldiers are holding out in Kyiv and other frontlines, while Russian troops, tanks and artillery make slow progress from the north, south and east.

Russian advances in the south – the captured city of Kherson to the besieged city of Mariupol – have been more successful in contrast with the difficulties forces have experienced in the north and north-east, in particular its efforts to surround the capital.

More than 10,000 people were evacuated from villages and cities around Kyiv on Wednesday, the city’s regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on local television.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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