Since February 24, the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the largest children’s national hospital, Okhmatdyt, has been operating non-stop. Instead of planned operations, there is an emergency rescue of Ukrainians who suffered as a result of the occupiers’ shelling.

According to Okhmatdyt, wounded children and adults are now admitted here, and seriously ill patients are kept in shelters for days.

“Wounded children whose parents were killed in front of them are being brought to us. Elderly people whose homes were destroyed by a rocket are brought to us. Victims of civilians are being brought to us"

– say hospital staff.

13-year-old Vova found himself in Okhmatdit on February 26. He was trying to leave Kyiv with his family when their car came under fire. The boy’s father and his 6-year-old brother died on the spot.

Vova has a gunshot wound to the right half of his face, a fragmentation open fracture of the lower jaw, and a fragmentary fracture of the right chin-orbital complex. The teenager underwent a number of complex surgeries. He will need a long rehabilitation for a full recovery.

On February 28, a mother was killed in front of 6-year-old Milana when a Russian missile hit their home near Gostomel. The wreckage damaged the girl’s lower limbs.

7-year-old Varya from Irpen and her family tried to leave their hometown, which is constantly shelled by the Russian military. The occupiers began attacking civilians with mortars. Varya and her mother received severe shrapnel wounds and severe leg injuries.

On the morning of March 18, a family of wounded Kyivans was brought to Okhmatdyt, who were injured in a shelling by Russian troops in one of the capital’s districts. Dmytro and Olga were feeding their one-month-old daughter Victoria when an enemy shell landed near the five-story building where the family lives. The little boy managed to survive and was not injured, because his mother covered her with his own body, and Olga had numerous shrapnel wounds. The father has severe leg injuries.

On March 17, 14-year-old Yura and his father went to the occupied Bucha center for humanitarian aid and medicine.

«We were riding bicycles when the Russian military came out of the house. We stopped, raised our hands, said we had no weapons. But the soldier began to shoot at his father. He fell. Then the military began firing at me, two bullets hit his hand. I fell on the ground. The soldier fired a shot into his hood, but the bullet did not hit his head»

– the boy said.

Yura lay on the ground for several minutes, and when the Russian soldier left, the boy ran to the nearest shelter, where he was given first aid. Then he got home and told his family that his father had been killed. The boy’s father, Ruslan, was 47 years old. Yura received a bullet wound in his arm, forearm and finger.

A 4-year-old boy was returning home with his father when the enemy shelling of one of Kyiv’s districts began. A Russian shell hit the yard, and the son and father received shrapnel wounds. The boy has a severe wound in the lumbar region.

According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, as of the morning of March 26, the Russian military had killed 136 children and injured 199 children in Ukraine. The most affected children were in Kyiv oblast – 64, Kharkiv oblast – 44, Donetsk oblast – 50, Chernihiv oblast – 38, Mykolaiv oblast – 28, Luhansk oblast – 25, Zaporizhzhia oblast – 17, Kherson oblast – 20, the capital – 16, Zhytomyr oblast – 15 and Sumy oblast – 14.

On February 24, 2022, Putin’s Russia launched a new phase of the war against Ukraine, carrying out massive shelling and bombing of peaceful Ukrainian towns and villages. The entire people of Ukraine rose up to fight the invaders, and its Armed Forces and Territorial Defense Forces stopped the enemy’s offensive and inflicted heavy losses on it.