As of 8:00 a.m. on April 25, 2022, during on April 23, 24, 28 civilians had been killed due to the Russian invasion, among them 4 children (excluding all victims in Mariupol, Volnovakha, Kyiv, Luhansk, Kherson, Kharkiv regions). 59 people were injured, including 4 children. 5 civilians were captured, among them 1 child (the girl 9 years old). Totally more than 300 civilians were kidnapped by the Russian troops, they are mostly journalists, local government officials of the occupied settlements, the Ukrainian activists, teachers as well.
Children:
As of April 25, due to the Russian full-scale invasion against the population of Ukraine, 215 children were killed and 391 were wounded, according to the data of the Office of the General Prosecutor of Ukraine.
Five civilians were captured by the Russian troops in the occupied settlements, including one child (9-year-old) and the teenager (18-year-old):
- In Mariupol the Russian military kidnapped Olexiy Novikov – 18-year-old, he is a son of Olha Novikova, a well-known head of the Mariupol’s Film festival. The Russian occupiers have sent toward mother of the boy a request for ransom – 5000 Euro in order to the boy just will stay alive. The Russian occupiers don’t promise to free the boy; they simply say not kill him for the money. Video with the abducted boy https://hromadske.ua/posts/okupanti-vimagayut-vikup-za-polonenogo-sina-kerivnici-mariupolskogo-kinofestivalyu
- In Prymorsk (Zaporizhzhya region) – the Russian military kidnapped two civilians.
- In Novoukrainka (Zaporizhzhya region) – according to a wife the Russian military kidnapped her husband (37-year-old) and daughter (9-year-old).
SAVE MARIUPOL
According to approximate figures, several thousand people are remaining in the bomb shelters of the Azovstal plant, about half of them civilians – women and children. The Russian authorities have not yet allowed the opening of a humanitarian corridor for the releasing of civilians from Azovstal. All people have been under strict blockade for almost 2 months. Food and water remain for a few days. Among the children there are very small, even one-year-old. In addition to the exhausting blockade, people are constantly staying under air and artillery fire, despite “orders” from the Russian President Vladimir Putin to “stop the shelling.” The Ukrainian authorities are offering the Russian side various options to save the people – including the exchange of all Russian prisoners of war for civilians in Mariupol. However, Russia has so far not contributed in any way for releasing of civilians. Link to the appeal of the Azovstal residents https://gazeta.ua/articles/np/_izhi-ta-vodi-lishilos-na-licheni-dni-azov-pokazav-zhinok-ta-ditej-u-mariupoli/1084374
According to preliminary estimates of Mariupol’s Mayor Volodymyr Boychenko, more than 20,000 city residents were killed during the Russian-Ukrainian war. More than 100,000 civilians still remain in the city. Satellite photos of huge mass graves have appeared in the media, at one of which, according to preliminary estimates of Deputy Mayor Andriushchenko, about 1,000 civilians may be buried. Photo at the link https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/bratski-mogili-v-mariupoli-shche-odne-masove-pohovannya-znayshli-bilya-sela-vinogradne-foto-50236203.html
Massacre in the Kyiv region:
According to the official data of the forensic experts the big number bodies of the killed civilians have shell fragments which were used against infantry during the First World War. Such kind of the shells were dropped from the aircrafts on the peaceful Ukrainian towns.
Losses of civilians in different regions and settlements of Ukraine:
Dnipropetrovsk region: The Russian army fired 9 missiles on Kremenchuk, residential neighborhoods affected. The number of the civilian casualties is being clarified.
Donetsk region: 5 people died, including 2 children. 9 civilians were injured.
Krasnohorivka (Donetsk region) – 2 children (girls – 5 and 14 years old) died as a result of the Russian shelling.
Avdiivka (Donetsk region) – 5 civilians were wounded.
Velyka Novosilka (Donetsk region) – 2 civilians were injured.
Novoselivka (Donetsk region) – 2 people died.
Lyman (Donetsk region) – 2 people were injured.
Novomykhailivka (Donetsk region) – 1 civilian died.
Zaporizhzhia region: 3 people died, including 1 teenager. (information is incomplete, because the part of the region is occupied by Russian troops).
Kamyanske (Zaporizhzhya region) – 3 civilians were killed in the Russian shelling, including one teenager (16 years old).
Luhansk region: 8 people were killed and 4 were injured. There is no complete information due to the active hostilities. The Russian military is shelling the settlements of Luhansk region with aircraft, multiple launch systems, and missile striking.
Hirske and Zolote (Luhansk region) – the Russian military is shelling residential neighborhoods, 6 people were killed and 2 were injured.
Popasna (Luhansk region) – 2 civilians were killed.
Luhansk region – 2 wounded civilians were registered in Bakhmut (Donetsk region).
Mykolaiv region: the Russian military continues to occupy settlements of the Mykolaiv region, as a result of Russian attacks 12 civilians, among them 2 children were wounded.
Odesa region: 8 civilians died in Odessa, including a three-month-old infant. Wounded – 18.
Odesa – The Russian military launched a missile strike from the Caspian Sea on Odesa. The rocket struk a residential high-rise building, killing 8 people, including a three-month-old baby. 18 civilians were injured.
Kharkiv region: 4 people died. 16 were injured, including 2 children.
Kharkiv – as a result of the Russian shelling of residential areas of the city, 1 person was killed and 3 were injured.
Chuhuiv (Kharkiv region) – the Russian military fired on the settlement, 1 civilian was killed, 6 people were injured, including a child.
Zolochiv (Kharkiv region) – 1 woman was killed and 2 people were injured in the Russian shelling, including a 13-year-old child.
Kalynovo (Kharkiv region) – a woman died.
Malynivka (Kharkiv region) – the Russian military fired artillery on residential areas, 5 civilians were wounded.
Kherson region: no information, because most part of the region is occupied by the Russian troops.