UN condemns unimaginable suffering of Ukrainian children at hands of Russia

If they say no, we’ll know what the impediment is to peace here.”

The US

Some children fall to their knees – their legs do not move because they are afraid. There are no tears, no crying or screaming, the child just freezes. One child stood there holding a toy and did not let go of it all day.”

A new report on children’s lives since the Russian invasion was prefaced with a nursery director’s description of their response to shelling

They’re already asking to go back. We’re doing everything we can to convince them otherwise,

Prilutskaya said

Their rights have been undermined in every aspect of life, leaving deep scars, both physical and psychosocial,

said UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk

In the four regions of Ukraine that were illegally annexed by the Russian Federation in 2022, children have been particularly affected by violations of international human rights law...including summary executions, arbitrary detention, conflict-related sexual violence, torture and ill-treatment

the report said