90 children killed and more than 100 wounded in Ukraine since Russia invaded

Russian troops have shelled residential areas (Image: Getty/Reuters)

Ninety youngsters have been killed and greater than 100 have been injured since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started, officers say.

Russian troops have bombed nurseries and shelled households making an attempt to flee throughout ceasefires.

The Worldwide Prison Court docket is finishing up a warfare crimes investigation after repeated assaults on hospitals, colleges and residential areas. 

Russia denies concentrating on civilians in what it calls a ‘particular operation’ to demilitarise and ‘de-Nazify’ Ukraine.

Its troops have shelled youngsters enjoying soccer and shot youngsters lifeless, in line with a number of reviews.

Kids have been killed within the highest numbers round Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kherson, Mykolayiv and Zhytomyr, the workplace of the Ukraine’s basic prosecutor mentioned in an announcement.

It comes amid information a pregnant girl injured when Russian forces shelled a hospital has died alongside along with her child.

A photograph exhibiting the lady being carried by the wreckage on a stretcher appeared on entrance pages all over the world final week.

Russian troops bombed a hospital in Mariupol (Image: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Surgeon Timur Marin mentioned she suffered accidents to her pelvis and hip. The infant was delivered through caesarean part however confirmed ‘no indicators of life’.

Medics mentioned the lady cried out ‘kill me now’ when she realised she was dropping the newborn.

Three others together with a baby died within the strike, which hit the maternity and youngsters’s wards on the hospital in Mariupol.

Tons of of hundreds of trapped residents within the besieged southeastern metropolis are struggling to search out meals, water and drugs.

Evacuation buses and provide convoys have repeatedly needed to flip again after intense shelling.

Ukraine says greater than 2,500 civilians have been killed within the metropolis.

A avenue broken by shelling in Mariupol (Image: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ladies and youngsters sit on a hospital ground within the besieged metropolis Mariupol (Image: AP/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Polina, one of many first civilian victims named within the battle, was in her closing 12 months of main faculty (Picture: Volodymyr Bondarenko/BBC)

The Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross mentioned the struggling in Mariupol was ‘merely immense’.

‘Useless our bodies, of civilians and combatants, stay trapped below the rubble or mendacity within the open the place they fell,’ the Pink Cross mentioned.

‘Life-changing accidents and continual, debilitating circumstances can't be handled.’

It's now nearly three weeks since Russia invaded its neighbour. 

One of many first civilian victims named within the battle was a schoolgirl – Polina. She was in her closing 12 months of main faculty.

Russian saboteurs shot the 10-year-old and her mother and father lifeless of their household automotive as they tried to flee Kyiv on February 26.

Her five-year-old brother died from his accidents earlier this month.

The UN has confirmed 636 civilian deaths, amongst them 46 youngsters. The true quantity is more likely to be far larger.

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