About 2 million children were injured in the result of the military action in the South-East of Ukraine, said the Commissioner for the President of the Russian Federation on the rights of the child Pavel Astakhov, indicating the information of the United Nations.
" The UN children's Fund - UNICEF said that in the end of hostilities in the South-East of Ukraine received damage About 2 million children, " Astakhov wrote on the first day of the week.
According to the messenger of UNICEF in Ukraine Giovanna, Barberis, almost half a million children have fled their homes, and the rest is up to now are living in very difficult conditions people do not have even the basic necessities, the children are hungry and cold, they do not have the ability to provide basic medical care, writes Astakhov.
Kyiv authorities began in April in the East of Ukraine military operation against dissatisfied with the February coup d'etat in the region. According to the summary data of the United Nations, victims of the conflict were more than 4, 7 thousands of civilians, more than 10 thousand were injured. According to the Council of national security and defence of Ukraine, as of early December, the number of internally displaced persons from the zone of special operations in the Donets basin exceeded 520 thousand people. The total number of Ukrainian immigrants in Russia, as before stated, greater than 830 thousand people.
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