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Ukraine’s parliament has issued updated figures for child casualties of the war on Twitter. They say the total number of children affected by the Russian invasion is 594. There have been 208 deaths and 386 injuries among the nation’s children.
The numbers have not been independently verified, and do not include casualty or deaths in besieged areas of the country such as Mariupol.