Empty strollers line up in Ukraine as country mourns children killed in war
Russia-Ukraine war: As conflict-torn Ukraine mourns its dead, scores of empty strollers lined up in the city of Lviv's cobbled central square on Friday to commemorate the children killed in the ongoing Russian invasion.
According to Ukrainian authorities, Lviv city hall put 109 strollers, or prams, in orderly rows, one for each child killed since the start of the war.
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have sought refuge in Lviv, in western Ukraine, away from the frontlines of the war.
Speaking to Russian mothers, Zhuravka Natalia Tonkovyt, a Canadian citizen of Ukrainian origin said "Remember your children when they were small and sitting in strollers like these," adding, "Some (children) will not be put into these strollers because they are dead. Compare it to your own children, remember your feelings towards your own children... I want to see no empty stroller."
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At least 109 children have died and over 100 have been injured in the ongoing conflict. The majority of the children were killed in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Donetsk and Kherson, while the Russian bombing and shelling damaged over 400 educational institutions, including schools, with 59 of them being destroyed.
As of the latest reports, the number of children killed in the Ukraine war has jumped to 112 and 140 children have been reported injured.
Furthermore, on Saturday, the Russian Defense Ministry released video footage showing precision weapons being used to destroy a Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage unit.
"The video shows a strike on a reconnaissance and sabotage unit of the Ukrainian armed formations, carrying out reconnaissance and search operations on four US-made all-terrain military vehicles. After the strike with precision missile weaponry, the group was destroyed," stated the defence ministry.
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