Ukraine reports deaths of more children in Mariupol

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24 more children have died in Mariupol, the southeastern port city that was besieged for weeks before Russian forces captured it in mid-May.

The office of Ukraine's prosecutor general said on Saturday once it learned of the numbers.

In total, the office said that at least 287 children have died since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. In addition, more than 492 have been wounded.

"During the recording of criminal offences, it has become known that 24 more children died in Mariupol, Donetsk region, as a result of the indiscriminate shelling by the Russian military," the office said on the Telegram messaging app.

"These figures are not final, as work is underway to establish them in places of active hostilities, in the temporarily occupied and liberated territories."

Reuters was not able to independently verify the report.

The mayor of Mariupol - reduced to ruins by the siege – said there was an outbreak of cholera in the city as sanitation systems were broken and corpses were rotting in the streets.

Russia has denied targeting civilians and has rejected allegations of war crimes in what it calls a "special military operation" aimed at demilitarising and "denazifying" Ukraine. Kyiv and its allies say Ukraine was invaded without provocation.

Early in June, the United Nations said that more than 250 children had been killed since the war began, and five million remain at risk of violence and abuse.

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