28/08/2025 Children of Ukraine
“On the night of 28 August, Russia once again targeted Ukraine with missiles and drones. The attack struck residential areas across Kyiv, leaving at least eighteen people dead and injuring more than forty. Among the victims were four children – a two-year-old girl, a fourteen-year-old boy, and two seventeen-year-old young people,” today said Olena Khomenko (Ukraine, ECPA), Chairperson of the Parliamentary Network on the situation of the children of Ukraine.
“This barbaric act of terror has torn families apart and extinguished innocent lives, including those of children who should have been safe in their own homes. There can be no justification for such deliberate cruelty. The killing of Ukraine’s youngest and most vulnerable citizens is not only a crime against Ukraine, but an assault on our shared humanity,” she emphasised.
“We condemn this atrocity in the strongest possible terms and call on our European partners and the international community to move beyond words of sympathy and to take swift, concrete action to stop the killings of Ukraine’s children. These children are not only Ukraine’s future—they are Europe’s future, and their protection is a moral duty we cannot ignore.
Ukraine mourns today. But alongside our grief, we demand accountability, stronger sanctions, increased air defence support, and decisive measures that will ensure such crimes cannot continue.
Every day of hesitation costs more innocent lives. We urge our partners: act now, act decisively, and act together—to defend the children of Ukraine,” Ms Khomenko concluded.