Nearly 800 children are among those killed in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the UN says. Published On 19 May 202619 May 2026The United Nations has said 15,850 people, including 791 children, have been killed in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion of the neighbouring country in February 2022.The “actual figures are likely significantly higher”, Kayoko Gotoh, Europe and Central Asia director of the UN’s Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listPeace talks have stalled between Ukraine and Russia. US President Donald Trump has attempted to mediate and announced the most recent three-day ceasefire earlier this month, but fighting has resumed.Tuesday’s Russian attacks on Ukraine killed at least six people.A 15-year-old boy was among three people killed in a Russian ballistic missile attack on the city of Pryluky in north-central Ukraine’s Chernihiv region on Tuesday morning, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.In the region of Sumy, two people were killed in an attack carried out by two Russian drones in the city of Hlukhiv in the Shostka district on Tuesday morning, the Sumy Regional Prosecutor’s Office said on Facebook.In the evening attack on the same region, at least one person was killed and another injured in a Russian drone strike on a civilian car in the city of Buryn, according to the head of the regional military administration, Oleg Grigorov.In Russia, two people were killed and six injured over the past 24 hours in a Ukrainian drone attack on the village of Borisovka in the region of Belgorod, according …
