About 30 children were killed in the self-proclaimed Lugansk people's Republic during the confrontation in the Donbass, said at a press conference the head of the criminal police for children's Affairs Bogdan Rudenko.

The Ukrainian authorities began in April last year in the Donbass military operation against dissatisfied with the coup d'etat of residents of the region. According to the summary data of the UN, the victims of the conflict were About 6, 8 thousand people. Children's Ombudsman DNR Jan Chepikova said that among them there are About 60 children from the Republic, and This is only the official statistics. Kiev in the Donbass violated all the provisions on the rights of the child, she said.

"on inaccurate data, during the conflict within the LNR killed About 30 minors, but not in all areas, data collected," said Wednesday Rudenko.

He noticed that in the past year, during active hostilities, separate statistics on children no one was leading." These are preliminary numbers, " Rudenko.

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