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.
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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