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How many children have been killed in Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine? A new Meduza investigation finds at least 940.

Source: Meduza

The war Russia launched has killed hundreds of thousands of people and harmed millions. Exactly how many are children is unknown. The two sides keep their own counts, but their methods differ, making comparisons difficult. Official U.N. figures also appear incomplete. Meduza examined all available information, checked it against as many public sources as possible, and established a minimum number of children who have died during the war. The answer is in the headline.

Caution: This article contains accounts of children’s deaths.

What Meduza counted

We counted everyone killed who was under 18. This matches the definition the U.N. uses to count casualties in international conflicts. Ukrainian and Russian law use the same age limit.

Our analysis drew on data from international organizations and Ukrainian and Russian authorities, as well as:

  • Social media posts by people close to the child
  • Posts by schools and hospitals
  • Official statements from local authorities
  • Law enforcement reports
  • News articles and other public sources

Almost every death we counted was corroborated by two or more sources. In some cases involving occupied areas or hard-to-reach places near the front, a statement from local authorities was the only source. We recorded those deaths when the statement specified where and on what date the child died. We excluded reports lacking these details from our database.

We classified deaths by where the child died rather than by citizenship, because Russia forced people in occupied areas to obtain Russian documents. For Ukraine, we therefore counted children who died within the country’s 1991 borders — including annexed Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as occupied parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions. For Russia, we counted only deaths within its internationally recognized territory, excluding Ukrainian regions.

This distinction follows the U.N. General Assembly’s resolution on Crimea and the resolution adopted after the annexation of four Ukrainian regions.

It also prevents some deaths from being counted twice.

We do not give the children’s surnames in this article, but we used them in our analysis to ensure an accurate count. In all, we found the full names or first names of 409 children: 372 in Ukraine and 37 in Russia. We most often found their names in posts or statements from relatives, schools, hospitals, rescue services, prosecutors’ offices, courts, and local authorities, as well as news reports and memorial projects. International organizations such as the U.N. do not publish this information.

The war Russia launched has killed more than 940 children

As of early September 2026, at least 940 children had died because of the war:

  • 873 in Ukraine
  • 67 in Russia

For Ukraine, our count began with the figure published by the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission: By August 31, 2026, the U.N. had confirmed the deaths of 835 children. Meduza’s count runs through October 9 and supplements the U.N. data with news reports and official statements about individual deaths. These account for another 38 deaths.

Using the same method, we confirmed 67 children’s deaths in Russia.

These figures differ from the countries’ own estimates. As of October 9, 2026, the Ukrainian government’s Children of War (Dity Viiny) website reported 755 children killed. Russia’s Foreign Ministry reported 264 as of June 30, 2026, in its latest statement on the subject.

There is a simple explanation for the gap. Ukraine’s figures include confirmed deaths across the country, including occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but coverage of those areas is incomplete: Investigators often cannot obtain documents or reach the places where children died. Russia’s figures include victims in Crimea, Sevastopol, and other occupied areas as well as within Russia.

Our count is also a minimum estimate. The actual toll is almost certainly higher: The U.N. itself cautions that it cannot quickly verify every report of a child’s death, particularly in places where fighting has continued for a long time.

The number of child casualties began rising faster in 2026. In Ukraine this July, the number of children killed or injured reached its highest level since the first months of Russia’s full-scale invasion. In Russia, 32 children died between January and early October — more than in any previous full year of the war.

Ukraine: 873 killed

At least 873 children’s deaths have been confirmed within Ukraine’s internationally recognized borders. Ukrainian authorities’ data show that more than half of the children — 450 — died between February and December 2022.

Information about the first months of the invasion remains incomplete. In a report on children affected by war, the U.N. said at least 120 children died in Mariupol between February and April 2022. The actual number could be much higher: Independent researchers have been unable to enter the Russian-occupied city.

The exact number of people killed in the March 16, 2022, strike on the Mariupol Drama Theater remains unknown. Hundreds of civilians, including children, were sheltering inside. The word “CHILDREN” was written in enormous letters on the ground in front of and behind the building.

The Associated Press later estimated the death toll at around 600. That figure circulated widely but remained unconfirmed. Amnesty International confirmed at least 12 deaths. The human rights organization concluded that more than 12 people had died, but probably far fewer than 600.

How many of those killed in the theater were children is unknown. One of the few victims identified by name was 2-year-old Karolina. During the attack, she was on the theater’s second floor with her mother and older sister. Karolina and her parents died; her sister and grandparents survived. Karolina’s last words were: “Grandma, I’m with you.”

Children killed in other regions ranged in age from newborns to 17-year-olds. One of the youngest was 2-month-old Uliana. She died in Kryvyi Rih with her mother and two brothers, 2-year-old Demyd and 10-year-old Kyrylo, after a Russian ballistic missile hit their home.

On April 4, 2025, a missile exploded directly above a residential neighborhood in Kryvyi Rih, near a playground. Nine children, ages 3 to 17, were killed in that single attack; most were playing in the park when the missile struck. U.N. staff visited the site and saw marks left by hundreds of fragments on swings, slides, trees, and houses. “It’s an unimaginable horror,” said U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. The mission said the attack killed more children than any other since the war began.

On November 19 of that year, Russia attacked Ternopil with drones and cruise missiles. The missiles hit apartment buildings, killing at least 38 people, including eight children, and injuring another 99. In one building, 5-year-old Kamila and 18-month-old Nazar died with their mother. Their father was in another room during the strike and survived; he spent the next three days waiting by the ruins while rescuers searched for his family.

In another building, the same strike killed 17-year-olds Artem and Ruslan, who had been friends since kindergarten. After the first explosion, their families left the building and ran toward a shelter. The teenagers did not reach it in time and were killed by the next explosion.

Russia: 67 killed

Meduza confirmed 67 children’s deaths within Russia’s internationally recognized territory:

  • Two in 2022
  • Six in 2023
  • 19 in 2024
  • Eight in 2025
  • 32 from January through September 2026

The children died in 13 regions. Almost half — 30 — died in the Belgorod region, near the front. Another 14 died in the Krasnodar region, seven in the Kursk region, five in the Bryansk region, and three in the Moscow region. These five regions account for 59 of the 67 deaths.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry previously reported 264 children killed. On October 1, it issued a separate estimate of 70 children killed since the beginning of 2026. One reason the counts differ is that the ministry includes figures from occupied areas: Crimea, Sevastopol, and captured parts of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson regions.

Of the 264 deaths reported by Russia, Meduza could link only 99 to specific events and corroborate them through other sources. Of these, 44 are already included in our count, while another 55 occurred within Ukraine’s internationally recognized territory.

For the remaining deaths, Russian authorities published no dates, specific locations, or other information that would allow us to check them. We feel obliged to cite this estimate here, but we cannot call it well founded.

The children’s ages are known in 58 cases. The youngest was 6 months old. His name was Yelisey. During the night of June 30, 2026, a Ukrainian drone hit his family’s house in the Moscow region. The second-floor bedroom, where the boy was with his mother, bore the brunt of the impact. Rescuers searched for Yelisey under the rubble for a long time. He suffered severe burns and died on the way to the hospital.

His 6-year-old brother, Matvey, was pulled out almost unharmed, but after the ordeal he did not speak for more than a day. Their parents were admitted to intensive care. Yelisey’s mother had one leg amputated, then the other after she was transferred to another hospital; his father underwent several complex operations.

Two-year-old Grisha died on June 12, 2025, in Borisovka in the Belgorod region. His grandmother was pushing him in a stroller around the building that day when a Ukrainian drone hit the apartment building. The child was taken to the hospital with a head injury. Doctors tried for several hours to save him.

In Novorossiysk, a Ukrainian drone fell onto a house. An 8-year-old boy died at the scene, while his mother and 6-year-old brother suffered severe injuries and burns. The child was buried in his school uniform: He was due to start second grade in a few weeks. His father is listed as missing in action.

Five-year-old Tolya suffered severe burns in a Ukrainian drone attack on a public beach in Kursk. Citing witnesses, Kursk Governor Alexander Khinshtein said the boy had tried to shield his mother with his body. The child died the next day while being transported to a Moscow hospital.

We found five other deaths that are unquestionably connected to the war but do not meet the international criteria for counting war casualties. We nevertheless believe they must be mentioned.

Three of these five deaths were murders committed by men who had returned from the war.

Former Wagner Group fighter Vladimir Vlasov struck his stepdaughter several times shortly after he was demobilized. The girl died at the scene.

Artem Buchin, who had previously been convicted of rape and murder and was pardoned so he could be sent to the front, raped his former wife after returning, then killed her and her 7-year-old daughter.

Vladimir Alexandrov of Nizhny Tagil, who had also returned from the war, raped and strangled his 11-year-old neighbor Anastasia Yakina.

Buchin and Alexandrov received life sentences. A court sentenced Vlasov to 14 years in a penal colony.

What Russia and Ukraine say about the children killed

Russian officials and state media regularly call those killed in Russia and occupied areas “victims of the Kyiv regime.” This narrative emerged long before the full-scale invasion.

In May 2015, a memorial opened in occupied Donetsk with the inscription “Alley of Angels. In memory of the children of Donbas who were killed.” A granite slab bore 66 names. Russia’s Investigative Committee later described the children as “girls and boys aged 1 to 18” and said they had died in Ukrainian shelling.

On the morning of February 24, 2022, when Putin announced the full-scale invasion, he said he was starting the war to protect people “who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.” Three weeks later, he explicitly linked this argument to children’s deaths: Western countries, he said, “looked away for the past eight years while mothers in Donbas buried their children.”

Children’s deaths during the war in Donbas are not a propaganda fabrication. But the Alley of Angels memorial does not name every child killed during that period of the Russian-Ukrainian war: It includes only those whom authorities in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic declared victims of Ukrainian shelling. Some children, however, died when mines or other munitions of unknown origin exploded. And children killed by shelling from separatists and Russian forces are simply absent from the list.

In all, the U.N. confirmed the deaths of 152 children between April 2014 and the end of 2021. Another 80 children died aboard MH17, which Russia shot down; the organization counts them separately. Since the full-scale invasion began, at least 940 children have died in Ukraine and Russia in a much shorter period — six times as many.

The Ukrainian government considers the deaths of children key evidence that the war is criminal. As early as March 7, 2022, Ukraine’s U.N. representative, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said at the U.N. Security Council that “Russian occupiers are killing Ukrainian children — deliberately and cynically.” At the time, Kyiv had reported 38 children killed and called on the U.N. to force Russia to agree to a ceasefire.

After the most severe attacks, Volodymyr Zelensky typically did not cite overall statistics but pointed to specific cases. When a Russian missile killed a 3-month-old girl in Odesa in April 2022, he said that killing children had become “the Russian Federation’s new national idea.” After nine children died in Kryvyi Rih in April 2025, he said: “It is wrong and dangerous to stay silent about the fact that it is Russia that is killing children with ballistic missiles.”

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Russian propagandists, officials, and Putin himself still invoke the events of 2014–2022 to justify the attack on Ukraine. But once Ukrainian strikes on Russian cities became routine, they added several new arguments to this rhetoric.

At an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting following the shelling of Belgorod on December 30, 2023 — which killed five children — Vasily Nebenzya called the attack “a deliberate act of terrorism” and blamed not only Ukraine but also the United States, the United Kingdom, and European Union countries that supply it with weapons.

A new storyline emerged in this narrative in 2026, triggered by a Ukrainian strike on two colleges in Russian-occupied Starobilsk, where 21 people were killed. Some of those wounded were minors: The initial list of the wounded included 16 teenagers ages 15 to 17. All the teenagers who died were legal adults: the youngest had turned 18 four days before the strike. Russian human rights ombudswoman Yana Lantratova, and propagandists who followed her lead, pointedly described those injured or killed as children when discussing the attack.

Kremlin propaganda also claims that AI developed by the American company Palantir deliberately selected the college as a target. Vladimir Solovyov declared Palantir and its head, Alex Karp, directly responsible for the strike. He also blamed them for the deaths of children in Gaza and Iran, calling what was happening “the bloody harvests of Satanists,” and demanded “revenge for the children.” Military commentator Alexander Artamonov said that strikes on children supposedly constitute “a special method of warfare.”

Ukraine does cooperate with Palantir. Shortly before the attack, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry reported using AI to analyze combat data, identify targets, and plan operations. It has also been proven that Palantir’s technology was used in the strike on a school in Iran. But there is no independent confirmation that Palantir was involved in selecting the target in Starobilsk, let alone that it deliberately chose a student dormitory.

A few days later, rhetoric about those killed in Starobilsk turned into a direct call for revenge — specifically, according to the propagandists, revenge against children. Military commentator Yuri Baranchik said on the radio station of Komsomolskaya Pravda, the pro-Kremlin Russian tabloid, that in response “the children of Zelensky and Yermak should die.” Host Ivan Pankin pushed back, arguing that children should not be held accountable for their parents’ actions. Baranchik insisted that their deaths would strike a painful blow against Ukraine’s leadership.

Russian media have also justified, and even welcomed, strikes on Ukrainian cities that killed children. After a strike on a pizzeria in Kramatorsk in June 2023 killed, among others, two 14-year-old sisters and a 17-year-old girl, Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma’s defense committee, said on propagandist Vladimir Solovyov’s show: “The strike on Kramatorsk was simply brilliant!” He added: “My old military heart rejoices.”

After nine children died in Kryvyi Rih in April 2025, military blogger Yuri Podolyaka called the dead civilians “accidental casualties” and blamed their deaths partly on their own carelessness.

The U.N., Russia’s Foreign Ministry, and the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general did not respond to Meduza’s requests by the time this story was published.

List of the dead

Behind every number is a real child’s life.

The list below includes 518 of the dead children. We know the names of 409 of them. In another 93 cases, only the age is known, sometimes approximately. For 16 children, Meduza was able to establish only the place of death.

We included in this list only victims about whom we were able to learn at least something. The remaining 422 children in the overall count come from the U.N.’s list — we were unable to find enough information to describe each of them individually. The actual number of children killed is likely even higher.

Why do we trust the U.N.’s list but not the Russian Foreign Ministry’s?

It is worth explaining why Meduza includes U.N. statistics but not Russia’s Foreign Ministry figures.

Neither the U.N. nor Russia’s Foreign Ministry publishes a complete list naming the children killed. The difference is in how they verify information and how thoroughly they explain the basis for their overall death toll.

The U.N. monitoring mission describes its methodology in detail. Staff compare accounts from witnesses and relatives, medical and court documents, investigation records, photographs, videos, and official statements. Where possible, they visit the site. For a death to be included in the statistics, the combined evidence must provide “reasonable grounds to believe” that the event happened as described in the accounts and documents. This does not guarantee an error-free count, but it is a defined, publicly stated verification standard.

The U.N. mission operates under a mandate from the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, rather than the Russian or Ukrainian government, and documents violations by both sides. Its count extends beyond territory controlled by Kyiv: For example, of the 669 children’s deaths confirmed for 2022–2024 in a thematic report, 148 occurred in Russian-occupied areas.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry is an agency of the state that launched the war. Its reports focus exclusively on victims of actions the Kremlin blames on Ukraine. This does not in itself make the reports of deaths false — the report’s compilers said they gather data from Russia’s Emergencies Ministry, Health Ministry, ambulance services, and regional authorities. But the U.N. explains how it verifies each death before including it in the count. The Foreign Ministry does not disclose how it checks reports or ensures that the same child has not been counted twice. We therefore cannot verify its overall figure.

1. Serhiy P., 2 days, Vilniansk

2. Sofiia K., 23 days, Shyroka Balka

3. Name unknown, newborn girl; exact age unknown, near Tsyrkuny

4. Ivan F., 1.5 months, near Nova Kakhovka

5. Uliana K., 2 months, Kryvyi Rih

6. Roman, 2 months, Kyiv

7. Kira H., 3 months, Odesa

8. Name unknown, 3 months, Marhanets

9. Tymofiy H., 4 months, Odesa

10. Mykhailo K., 5 months, Kharkiv

11. Yelisey, 6 months, Yegoryevsk

12. Daryna H., 6 months, Irpin

13. Yelyzaveta K., 7 months, Odesa

14. Emiliia F., 7 months, Zaporizhzhia

15. German R., 1 year, Belgorod

16. Valeria Ch., 1 year, Belgorod

17. Nazar Ye., 1 year, Ternopil

18. Denys D., 1 year, Yurivka

19. Nikol D., 1 year, Yurivka

20. Liudmyla K., 1 year, Lyman

21. Danylo L., 1 year, Skadovsk

22. Polina S., 1 year, Borodianka

23. Myroslava, 1 year, Bohodukhiv

24. Dmytro, 1 year 2 months, Kherson district

25. Yefrem S., 1 year 6 months, Vorozhba

26. Ivan O., 1 year 6 months, Uman

27. Adam, 1 year 6 months, Zaporizhzhia

28. Sofiia Sh., about 18 months, Romny

29. Makar H., 1 year 6 months, Dnipro

30. Kyrylo, 1 year 6 months, Mariupol

31. Kyrylo Kh., 1 year 6 months, Mariupol

32. Myroslava L., 1 year 6 months, Mariupol

33. Name unknown, 1 year 6 months, Kharkiv

34. Oleksiy L., 1 year 6 months, Pryluky

35. Artem K., 1 year 7 months, Kryvyi Rih

36. Tymur K., 1 year 7 months, Havronshchyna

37. Kyrylo M., 1 year 7 months, Pryluky

38. Mykhailo B., 1 year 8 months, Kamianka

39. Oleh H., 1 year 9 months, Slobozhanske

40. Oleksandr A., 1 year 9 months, Pryluky

41. Maksym K., 2 years, Sloviansk

42. Veronika M., 2 years, Dnipro

43. Yelyzaveta K., 2 years, Sevastopol

44. Alexey S., 2 years, Razumnoye

45. Lev L., 2 years, Kyiv

46. Anhelina H., 2 years, Kyiv

47. Grigory B., 2 years, Borisovka

48. Siranush, 2–3 years, Horodyshche

49. Demyd K., 2 years, Kryvyi Rih

50. Olena K., 2 years, Lyman

51. Stepan Sh., 2 years, Novi Petrivtsi

52. Ivan, 2 years, Bohodukhiv

53. Vladyk, 2 years, Bohodukhiv

54. Name unknown, 2 years, Kyiv

55. Tymofiy, 2 years, Hlevakha

56. Emiliia I., 2–3 years, Hlevakha

57. Matviy, 2 years, Oleksandrivka, Donetsk region

58. Karolina B., 2 years 7 months, Mariupol

59. Tymofiy K., 2 years 10–11 months, Mariupol

60. Yeva S., 3 years, Rivne

61. Mark P., 3 years, Odesa

62. Tymofiy Ts., 3 years, Kryvyi Rih

63. Mykhailyna F., 3 years, Dnipro

64. Arina K., 3 years, Izium

65. Matviy M., 3 years, Chernihiv

66. Milana M., 3 years, Chernihiv

67. Oryna A., 3 years, Mariupol

68. Arina B., 3 years, Mishkovo-Pohorilove

69. Nikola H., 3 years, near Husarivka, Kharkiv region

70. Dima, 3, 4, or 5 years, Pukhivka

71. Mykyta P., 3 years, Izium

72. Name unknown, 3 years, a suburb of Voronezh

73. Name unknown, 3 years, Dnipro

74. Name unknown, 3 years, Voznesensk district

75. Liza D., 4 years, Vinnytsia

76. Dmytro B., 4 years, Bilopillia

77. Amina A., 4 years, Belgorod

78. Eva Z., 4 years, Belgorod

79. Kirill K., 4 years, Oktyabrsky

80. Emiliia K., 4 years, near the village of Nove

81. Denys L., 4 years, Chernechchyna

82. Davyd D., 4 years, Ternopil

83. Maxim, 4 years, Arkhipo-Osipovka

84. Leo, 4–5 years, Horodyshche

85. Klym Ch., 4 years, Bucha

86. Mykyta K., 4–5 years, Volnovakha

87. Dominika H., 4 years, Mariupol

88. Pavlo K., 4 years, Mariupol

89. Sofiia P., 4 years, Ternopil

90. Zhanna, 4 years, Chernihiv

91. Name unknown, 4 years, Oleksandrivka, Donetsk region

92. Zlata R., 4 years 6 months, Odesa

93. Kyrylo P., 5 years, Sumy

94. Nikol H., 5 years, Kyiv

95. Dmytro B., 5 years, Velykyi Bobryk

96. Anatoly M., 5 years, Kursk

97. Ivan, 5 years, Voskresensk

98. Kamila Ye., 5 years, Ternopil

99. Milana O., 5 years, Sumy

100. Sonya, 5 years, Arkhipo-Osipovka

101. Emiliia D., 5 years, Sumy

102. Vladyslav A., 5–6 years, Kherson

103. Semen K., 5 years, Kyiv

104. Kyrylo D., 5 years, Komysh-Zoria

105. Artem Ye., 5 years, Mariupol

106. Polina K., 5 years, Donetsk

107. Oleksandryna K., 5 years, Mariupol

108. Vsevolod K., 5 years, Zelenivka

109. Name unknown, 5 years, near Tsyrkuny

110. Name unknown, 5 years, Tarasivka

111. Name unknown, 5 years, Sartana

112. Name unknown, 5 years, Nizhnekamsk

113. Sofiia H., 6 years, Chernihiv

114. Anastasia M., 6 years, Belgorod

115. Nastya, 6 years, Primorsko-Akhtarsk

116. Dmytro Sh., 6 years, Mohrytsia

117. Borys Z., 6 years, Velyka Chernechchyna

118. Yehor L., 6 years, Chernechchyna

119. Yevheniia S., 6 years, Ochkine

120. Emiliia V., 6 years, Radushne

121. Emiliia B., 6 years, Lviv

122. Sofiia F., 6 years, near Nova Kakhovka

123. Milana Ch., 6 years, Hirsk

124. Kira A., 6 years, Velykyi Burluk

125. Maksym D., 6 years, Izium

126. Nazar H., 6 years, Novodmytrivka

127. Myroslava K., 6 years, Donets

128. Matviy M., 6 years, Kyiv

129. Name unknown, 6 years, Chaplyne

130. Name unknown, 6 years, Volnovakha district

131. Name unknown, 6–7 years, Hirnyk

132. Name unknown, 6 years, Henichesk

133. Alisa H., 7 years, Okhtyrka

134. Vadym I., 7 years, Sumy

135. Maksym Zh., 7 years, Vinnytsia

136. Bohdana K., 7 years, Seredyna-Buda

137. Yaroslav P., 7 years, Belgorod

138. Ruslan S., 7 years, Rivne

139. Milana, 7 years, Chornomorsk

140. Mykyta Ch., 7 years, Hlukhiv

141. Danyil Z., 7 years, Poltava

142. Arina S., 7 years, Kryvyi Rih

143. Radyslav, 7 years, Kryvyi Rih

144. Makar D., 7 years, Zaporizhzhia

145. Anhelina Ye., 7 years, Mariupol

146. Matviy A., 7 years, Bakhmut

147. Oleksiy B., 7 years, Kostiantynivka

148. Karyna Ch., 7 years, Oskil

149. Name unknown, 7 years, Nikolayevo-Daryino

150. Name unknown, 7 years, Bohynivka community, Synelnykove district

151. Name unknown, 7 or 12 years, Andreyevskoye

152. Kyrylo P., 8 years, Vinnytsia

153. Ivan P., 8 years, Dnipro

154. Uliana T., 8 years, Uman

155. Volodymyr B., 8 years, Tseniava

156. Ivan K., 8 years, Hroza

157. Zlata P., 8 years, Odesa

158. Mykhailo, 8 years, Synelnykove

159. Avrora G., 8 years, Belgorod

160. Sofiia A., 8 years, Sevastopol

161. Anastasiia S., 8–9 years, Kyiv

162. Andriy S., 8 years, Kyiv

163. Stanislav M., 8 years, Korostyshiv

164. Ameliia H., 8 years, Ternopil

165. Illia, 8 years, Dnipro

166. Yaroslav K., 8–9 years, Selydove

167. Yeva S., 8 years, Ochakiv

168. Roman Zh., 8 years, Kamianka

169. Sofiia A., 8 years, Mariupol

170. Marharyta H., 8 years, Bezruky

171. Veronika Kh., 8 years, Zaporizhzhia

172. Oleksandr H., 8 years, Vysunsk

173. Dmytro K., 8 years, Kharkiv

174. Sofiia K., 8 years, Kramatorsk

175. Mariia M., 8 years, Novohrodivka

176. Kira M., 8 years, Kharkiv

177. Alina H., 8 years, Pavlohrad

178. Makar T., 8 years, Novorossiysk

179. Maksym R., 8 years, Shyroke community, Kryvyi Rih district

180. Name unknown, 8 years, Donetsk

181. Name unknown, 8 years, Oleksandro-Kalynove

182. Name unknown, 8 years, Cherkasy

183. Name unknown, 8 years, Novoliubymivka

184. Name unknown, 8 years, Ryazan

185. Name unknown, 8 years, Ramenskoye urban district

186. Name unknown, 8 years, Mykhailivka

187. Name unknown, 8 years, Rakitnoye, Belgorod region

188. Maksym I., 8 years, Pryluky

189. Vasylisa P., 9 years, Dnipro

190. Mykyta L., 9 years, Zaporizhzhia

191. Pavel P., 9 years, Kistyor

192. Bohdan S., 9 years, Rivne

193. Serhiy P., 9 years, Odesa

194. Kristina B., 9–10 years, Kostiantynivka

195. Illia D., 9 years, Sumy

196. Sofiia Ya., 9 years, Poltava

197. Herman T., 9 years, Kryvyi Rih

198. Hordiy U., 9 years, Kharkiv

199. Hlib K., 9 years, Stepanivka

200. Matviy Ch., 9 years, Bucha

201. Anastasiia K., 9 years, Volnovakha

202. Oleksandr P., 9 years, Lyman

203. Illia Ch., 9 years, Chernihiv

204. Veronika D., 9 years, between Lyman and Sloviansk

205. Valeriia K., 9 years, Mariupol

206. Viktoriia I., 9 years, Kyiv

207. Yeva K., 9 years, Sloviansk

208. Denys K., 9 years, Zelenodolsk

209. Sofiia Sh., 9 years, Velyke Artakove

210. Arina P., 9 years, Izium

211. Name unknown, 9 years, Maysky

212. Name unknown, 9–10 years, Volodarske

213. Name unknown, 9 years, Lysychansk

214. Name unknown, 9 years, Dolynka

215. Name unknown, 9 years, Kerch

216. Yehor P., 10 years, Sumy

217. Alisa O., 10 years, Kramatorsk

218. Tymofiy I., 10 years, Zaporizhzhia

219. Alina B., 10 years, Uman

220. Dariia V., 10 years, Kryvyi Rih

221. Trokhym B., 10 years, Kharkiv

222. Yekaterina P., 10 years, Apanasovka

223. Daryna B., 10 years, Vilniansk

224. Maksym S., 10 years, Kyiv

225. Kyrylo K., 10 years, Kryvyi Rih

226. Sofiia D., 10 years, Sumy

227. Oleksiy K., 10 years, Izium

228. Dmytro U., 10 years, Chernihiv

229. Vladyslav A., 10 years, near Lyman

230. Artem A., 10 years, Rybakivka

231. Denys, 10 years, Vasylivka district

232. Name unknown, 10 years, Malomykhailivka

233. Name unknown, 10 years, Kramatorsk

234. Name unknown, 10–11 years, Kakhovka district

235. Name unknown, 10 years, Oleshky

236. Dmytro R., 11 years, Serhiivka

237. Vladyslav R., 11 years, Chaplyne

238. Sofiia Sh., 11 years, Uman

239. Stanislav N., 11 years, Bohatyr

240. Valeriia Kh., 11 years, Kostiantynivka

241. Maksym M., 11 years, Sumy

242. Mariia S., 11 years, Kyiv

243. Milana S., 11 years, Sloviansk

244. Maksym V., 11 years, Kyiv

245. Azariy Ilai V., 11 years, Radushne

246. Oleksandr M., 11 years, Tokarivka

247. Radmir M., 11 years, Tokarivka

248. Sviatoslav, 11 years, Chuhuiv

249. Sofiia, 11 years, Lozova community

250. Dariia P., 11–12 years, Nikopol

251. Tamara M., 11–12 years, Korostyshiv

252. Artem K., 11 years, Shyroka Balka

253. Danylo Kh., 11 years, near Krasne, Chernihiv region

254. Mariia A., 11 years, Mariupol

255. Kateryna D., 11 years, Mariupol

256. Anna H., 11 years, Lyman

257. Mykyta B., 11 years, Slobozhanske

258. Anastasiia H., 11 years, Chuhuiv

259. Volodymyr Kh., 11 years, Novoselivka

260. Hlib F., 11 years, Kherson

261. Artem M., 11 years, Mykolaiv

262. Oleksandr S., 11–12 years, Kharkiv

263. Name unknown, 11 years, near Polohy

264. Name unknown, 11 years, Donetsk

265. Name unknown, 11 years, Pokrovske community, Synelnykove district

266. Name unknown, 11–12 years, Dokuchaievsk

267. Name unknown, 11 years, Donetsk

268. Name unknown, 11 years, Printsevka

269. Vasilisa S., 12 years, Novaya Tavolzhanka

270. Daniil Z., 12 years, Borova

271. Alexander K., 12 years, Klimovo

272. Margarita P., 12 years, Apanasovka

273. Kirill P., 12 years, Belgorod

274. Mariia M., 12 years, Kharkiv

275. Ilya G., 12 years, Starodub district

276. Diana Z., 12 years, Poltava

277. Marharyta T., 12 years, Samar district

278. Kyrylo H., 12 years, Svesa community, Sumy region

279. Liubava Ya., 12 years, Kyiv

280. Yevhen Sh., 12–13 years, Znob-Novhorodske

281. Maksym, 12 years, Kyiv

282. Sofiia P., 12 years, Chernihiv

283. Veronika K., 12 years, Yahidne

284. Oleh B., 12 years, Lukashivka

285. Sofiia K., 12 years, Mariupol

286. Renata K., 12 years, Mariupol

287. Sofiia K., 12 years, Mariupol

288. Oleksiy L., 12 years, Mariupol

289. Polina O., 12 years, Mariupol

290. Albina B., 12 years, Izium

291. Mykola B., 12 years, Mykhailivka

292. Maksym K., 12 years, Beryslav

293. Yeva L., 12 years, Dnipro

294. Vladyslav M., 12 years, Rakivka

295. Arina Sh., 12 years, Kherson

296. Masha, 12 years, Markhalivka

297. Adriana U., 12 years, Lviv

298. Kateryna K., 12 years, Donetsk

299. Name unknown, 12 years, Kostiantynivka

300. Name unknown, 12 years, Vasylkivka community, Synelnykove district

301. Name unknown, 12 years, Vasylivka

302. Name unknown, 12 years, Syzran

303. Name unknown, 12–13 years, Horlivka

304. Yaroslav B., 13 years, Trostianets

305. Sofiia H., 13 years, Uhroidy

306. Mykola R., 13 years, Selydove

307. Liza P., 13 years, Kharkiv

308. Uliana V., 13 years, Sumy

309. Oleksandra M., 13 years, Znob-Novhorodske

310. Amir M., 13 years, Tokarivka

311. Leila F., 13 years, Dnipro

312. Oleksandr Sh., 13 years, Anysiv

313. Yakiv Ch., 13 years, Kharkiv

314. Vladyslav D., 13 years, Hirske

315. Alina D., 13 years, Malyi Burluk

316. Anastasiia D., 13–14 years, Lyptsi

317. Olha K., 13 years, Izium

318. Dmytro K., 13 years, Kharkiv

319. Pavlo L., 13 years, Ivanivka

320. Dmytro O., 13 years, near Dytiatky

321. Oleksandr T., 13 years, Borodianka

322. Name unknown, 13 years, Rylsk district

323. Name unknown, 13 years, Yasynuvata

324. Name unknown, 13 years, Peresadivka

325. Name unknown, 13–14 years, Horlivka

326. Name unknown, 13 years, Grayvoron

327. Name unknown, 13 years, Printsevka

328. Name unknown, 13 years, Kreminna

329. Name unknown, 13 years, Krasnodar

330. Name unknown, 13–14 years, Lipetsk municipal district

331. Name unknown, 13 years, Bylbasivka

332. Oleksandr Ts., 13–14 years, Katerynivka, Kharkiv region

333. Iryna I., 13 years, Pryluky

334. Maksym A., 14 years, Trostianets

335. Viacheslav Ya., 14 years, Odesa

336. Dmitry Kh., 14 years, Shebekino

337. Anna A., 14 years, Kramatorsk

338. Yuliia A., 14 years, Kramatorsk

339. Iryna, 14 years, Rozdolne

340. Oleksandra, 14 years, Synelnykove

341. Mariia S., 14 years, Kyiv

342. Yehor A., 14 years, Hlukhiv

343. Anna K., 14 years, Sumy

344. Mariia T., 14 years, Kyiv

345. Anastasiia B., 14 years, Sumy

346. Dmytro K., 14 years, Izium

347. Volodymyr O., 14 years, Yurivka

348. Vladyslav D., 14 years, Komysh-Zoria

349. Bohdan Kh., 14 years, near Krasne, Chernihiv region

350. Kateryna P., 14 years, Lyman

351. Hlib Zh., 14 years, Chernihiv

352. Dmytro S., 14 years, Nova Basan

353. Ivan B., 14 years, Lukashivka

354. Valentyn M., 14 years, Lyzunivka

355. Ihor Ch., 14 years, Sloviansk

356. Anastasiia L., 14 years, Mariupol

357. Ivan B., 14 years, Izium

358. Borys D., 14–15 years, Kharkiv

359. Sofiia H., 14 years, Kharkiv

360. Arseniy K., 14 years, Kukhari

361. Denys K., 14 years, Kolonshchyna

362. Mykyta K., 14 years, Starosillia

363. Maksym L., 14 years, Havronshchyna

364. Nazariy K., 14 years, Kyiv

365. Name unknown, 14 years, Dnipro

366. Name unknown, 14 years, Logachyovka

367. Name unknown, 14 years, Donetsk

368. Name unknown, 14 years, Polohy district

369. Name unknown, 14–15 years, Kostohryzove

370. Name unknown, 14 years, Tuapse

371. Name unknown, 14 years, Kramatorsk or Bilenke

372. Name unknown, 14 years, Novopskov district

373. Name unknown, 14 years, Krasnodon district

374. Name unknown, 14–15 years, near the settlement of Kharkivske

375. Name unknown, 14–15 years, Sevastopol

376. Name unknown, 14 years, Boryspil district

377. Name unknown, 14–15 years, between Krasna Poliana and Stepne, Donetsk region

378. Name unknown, 14 years, Kyiv

379. Illia H., 14 years, Vyshhorod

380. Vladyslav L., 14 years, Krolevets community

381. Maksym U., 14 years, Krolevets community

382. Artem P., 15 years, Sumy

383. Artem O., 15 years, Belgorod

384. Bohdan D., 15 years, Bilopillia

385. Denys M., 15 years, Odesa region

386. Illia H., 15 years, Vilniansk

387. Alina K., 15 years, Kryvyi Rih

388. Danylo N., 15 years, Kryvyi Rih

389. Mykyta, 15 years, Kryvyi Rih

390. Aneliia Sh., 15 years, Ivano-Frankivsk

391. Mariia P., 15 years, Kyiv

392. Nataliia K., 15 years, Solova

393. Alyona, 15 years, Suzemka

394. Davyd K., 15 years, Kryvyi Rih

395. Oleksiy L., 15 years, Uman

396. Ivan I., 15 years, Blystavytsia

397. Anna F., 15 years, Dnipro

398. Mariia L., 15 years, Dnipro

399. Anna Ch., 15 years, near Kolychivka

400. Kateryna A., 15 years, near Kolychivka

401. Maksym Sh., 15 years, near Kolychivka

402. Dmytro Ye., 15 years, Birky

403. Ihor D., 15 years, Vorzel

404. Valeriia Kh., 15 years, Pavlohrad

405. Dmytro H., 15 years, Malokaterynivka

406. Ivan H., 15 years, Myrnohrad

407. Arina Ya., 15 years, Motyzhyn

408. Oleksandr K., 15 years, Kherson

409. Mykola K., 15 years, Chuhuiv

410. Nadiia L., 15 years, Kostiantynivka

411. Kateryna Sh., 15 years, Borodianka

412. Name unknown, 15 years, Arkhanhelske

413. Name unknown, 15 years, Velyki Kopani

414. Name unknown, 15 years, Mena community, Koriukivka district

415. Name unknown, 15 years, Volchya Alexandrovka

416. Name unknown, 15–16 years, Kamianka-Dniprovska

417. Name unknown, 15 years, Kairy

418. Name unknown, 15 years, Kryvyi Rih district

419. Name unknown, 15 years, Krasnodar

420. Name unknown, 15 years, Mykhailivka, Zaporizhzhia region

421. Ruslan B., 15 years, Synelnykove

422. Anna K., 15 years, near Rykove

423. Anastasiia K., 16 years, Kramatorsk

424. Valeriia Sh., 16 years, Kramatorsk

425. Daryna B., 16 years, Kramatorsk

426. Oleksiy Ye., 16 years, Kramatorsk

427. Roman B., 16 years, Pozhnia

428. Alexandra P., 16 years, Belgorod

429. Ivan Sh., 16 years, Shebekino

430. Vladyslava A., 16 years, Kostiantynivka

431. Kostiantyn, 16 years, Kryvyi Rih

432. David Z., 16 years, Belgorod

433. Viktoriia K., 16 years, Barvinkove

434. Anastasiia O., 16 years, Chernihiv

435. Dmytro Ch., 16 years, Mariupol

436. Maksym K., 16 years, Mariupol

437. Dariia A., 16 years, Druzhba

438. Dmytro B., 16 years, Rubizhne, Kharkiv region

439. Ivan K., 16 years, Kharkiv or the surrounding area

440. Eduard L., 16 years, Barvinkove or the surrounding area

441. Dariia K., 16–17 years, Khorly

442. Name unknown, 16 years, Kreminna

443. Name unknown, 16 years, Kharkiv

444. Name unknown, 16 years, Shakhtarsk

445. Name unknown, 16 years, Rubizhne

446. Name unknown, 16 years, Krasnodar

447. Name unknown, 16 years, Sevastopol

448. Melaniia/Milana, 16 years, Lyman, Perevalsk district

449. Name unknown, 16–17 years, Sofiivka, Kakhovka district

450. Kateryna, 16 years, Sumy

451. Name unknown, 16 years, near Chornukhyne

452. Kyrylo P., 17 years, Uman

453. Yevheniia H., 17 years, Kramatorsk

454. Valeriia S., 17 years, Kramatorsk

455. Danil B., 17 years, Nikolskoye, Belgorod region

456. Yekaterina S., 17 years, Belgorod

457. Kyrylo Zh., 17 years, Kharkiv

458. Nikoleta B., 17 years, Vilniansk

459. Karyna B., 17 years, Kyiv

460. Uliana-Khrystyna M., 17 years, Zaporizhzhia

461. Mykyta, 17 years, Kryvyi Rih

462. Oleh K., 17 years, Sumy

463. Danylo Kh., 17 years, Kyiv

464. Roman M., 17 years, Korostyshiv

465. Bohdan H., 17 years, Sumy

466. Roman H., 17 years, Kyiv

467. Nina M., 17 years, Kyiv

468. Artem M., 17 years, Ternopil

469. Ruslan B., 17 years, Ternopil

470. Oleksandr Shch., 17 years, Znob-Novhorodske community, Sumy region

471. Vira Ya., 17 years, Kyiv

472. Mark V., 17 years, Radushne

473. Maksym B., 17 years, Dnipro

474. Hanna K., 17 years, Anysiv

475. Bohdan S., 17 years, Mokhnatyn

476. Yevheniy S., 17 years, Mokhnatyn

477. Anastasiia N., 17 years, Mariupol

478. Rinat T., 17 years, Mariupol

479. Karyna B., 17 years, Berestyn

480. Emir B., 17 years, Semykhatka

481. Vira B., 17 years, Mishkovo-Pohorilove

482. Viacheslav H., 17 years, Mykolaiv region

483. Serhiy H., 17 years, Novoselivka-3

484. Yelyzaveta Ya., 17 years, Mykolaiv

485. Vitaliy F., 17 years, between Khrystoforivka and Dobra Krynytsia

486. Ivan M., 17 years, Vilniansk

487. Daniil Sh., 17 years, between Hostomel and Horenka

488. Anastasiia S., 17 years, Kozacha Lopan

489. Roman T., 17 years, Rzhyshchiv

490. Maryna H., 17 years, Kyiv

491. Veronika K., 17 years, Dnipro

492. Name unknown, 17 years, Horlivka

493. Name unknown, 17 years, Kreminna

494. Name unknown, 17 years, Irmino

495. Name unknown, 17 years, between Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk

496. Name unknown, 17 years, Vorozhba community

497. Anastasiia K., 17 years, Mezhova

498. Oleksandr H., 17 years, Synelnykove

499. Polina K., age unknown, Kyiv

500. Alina H., age unknown, Kyiv

501. Anastasiia H., age unknown, Kyiv

502. Name unknown, age unknown, Rostov-on-Don

503. Name unknown, age unknown, Kramatorsk

504. Name unknown, age unknown, Kramatorsk

505. Name unknown, age unknown, Khorly

506. Name unknown, age unknown, Yaroslavl municipal district

507. Name unknown, age unknown, Crimea

508. Name unknown, age unknown, Dnipro

509. Name unknown, age unknown, Shebekino

510. Name unknown, age unknown, Arkhipo-Osipovka

511. Name unknown, age unknown, Arkhipo-Osipovka

512. Name unknown, age unknown, Yeysk district

513. Name unknown, age unknown, Yeysk district

514. Name unknown, age unknown, Krasnodar

515. Name unknown, age unknown, Velyka Bilozerka

516. Name unknown, age unknown, Kyiv

517. Maria P., age unknown, Novorossiysk

518. Name unknown, age unknown, Vyshhorod district

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