The UNICEF statement added that 4.3 million children have been displaced, representing more than half of Ukraine’s estimated 7.5 million children. That number includes more than 1.8 million children who have fled to neighboring countries as refugees and 2.5 million children who are also internally displaced in Ukraine, the statement said. The statement added that 78 children had been killed and 105 injured in Ukraine since the invasion began more than a month ago, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). However, these figures represent those confirmed by the UN and the actual toll is expected to be higher, the statement said. “It’s shocking,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder told CNN earlier this week. “Since the start of the war a month ago, one in two boys and girls in the country has now had to leave their homes. “It is a situation we have never seen, not even in living memory, and it is almost impossible to deal with.” Elder said UNICEF is trying to bring blankets, water purifying tablets, generators, medical supplies and maternity kits to mothers in the country. “If the war does not stop, if the indiscriminate attacks do not stop, we will see more children moving away from their homes and the bombing,” he added.
