Ukrainian humanitarian organisation, Save the Children, said on Monday, that attacks on hospitals and schools in Ukraine were putting around six million children in acute danger.
The organisation said that roughly one in five children had to flee their home country to escape the war, while those children who remained in the war zone were lacking food, clean water and medical assistance while constantly forced to fear for their lives.
“At the same time, 489 schools and 43 hospitals had been damaged or destroyed so far,” it said.
“Schools should be a place of safety for children, not a place of fear, injury or death,” the country director for Save the Children in Ukraine, Pete Walsh, said.
At least 59 children had already been killed according to the United Nations, with media reports suggesting the real number might be in the triple digits.
“The rules of war are very clear,” said Walsh.
“Children are not a target, neither are hospitals or schools.
“We have to protect the children of Ukraine at all costs.
“How many more people have to die before this war ends?” he said.
NAN
