Thousands of dead civilians: Gerashchenko named the number of victims of Russian aggression since February 24

Russian troops have taken away the lives of more than 400 Ukrainian children, more than 800 minors were injured, the adviser to the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported focus. More than 8. 4 thousand civilians have died in Ukraine from the actions of Russian troops from February 24, when the aggressor state began a full-scale war. Such statistics as of October 10 were given in an interview with Focus advisor to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko.

"According to the police, as of October 10, 8 436 civilians were killed, 6 134 were injured. 422 were also killed and 804 children were injured," Gerashchenko said. The adviser to the Interior Minister stressed that police statistics do not take into account the victims of Russian aggression on temporarily uncontrolled territories, such as the cities of Mariupol of Donetsk region, Popasna of Lugansk region.

In addition, Gerashchenko commented on massive strikes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine on October 10. According to him, all those killed and injured that day were civilians, and the aggressor did not struck any military object that day. "(Only civilians were killed), in particular, a 41-year-old Cyber ​​Police Colonel Yuri Zakkok and a doctor whose 5-year-old son remained a complete orphan," the minister's adviser said.