Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha criticized UNICEF’s statement regarding reports of children killed and injured as a result of attacks in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, stressing that the organization is missing the key point: all these child deaths are a direct consequence of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, UNN reports.
It is extremely regrettable that in its statement of August 4, UNICEF missed the key point: all these child deaths are a direct consequence of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. By presenting information about these victims without this fundamentally important context, UNICEF creates a false impression of equivalence between the aggressor and the victim
Moreover, according to him, UNICEF’s statement lacks basic fact-checking. It does not mention that the casualties in Krasnodar, Russia, resulted from the fall of a drone that was reportedly intercepted by Russian air defenses. UNICEF also failed to verify information about the casualties in Ukraine: in Dnipropetrovsk region, seven, not three, children from one family were killed. And yesterday, Russia killed another innocent Ukrainian child—a three-year-old boy in Kyiv region.
These are Russia’s war crimes. We call on UNICEF to condemn these horrific crimes and call on Russia to stop killing innocent Ukrainian children