Sybiha accuses UNICEF of hushing up Russia's responsibility for Ukrainian children's deaths
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sybiha stated that UNICEF, in its statement dated August 4, failed to indicate Russia’s responsibility for the deaths of children as a result of the war, and also allowed factual inaccuracies regarding the number of killed Ukrainian children.
Ukraine's acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiha has accused UNICEF of downplaying Russia's culpability for the deaths of Ukrainian children during the war. In a statement on August 4, UNICEF failed to acknowledge Russia's role in the fatalities, which Sybiha described as "deeply deplorable." He emphasized that every child's death is a direct consequence of Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine.
Sybiha criticized UNICEF's statement for lacking proper fact-checking, pointing out that it omitted details such as the fact that the casualties in Russian Krasnodar were caused by a drone intercepted by Russian air defenses. Additionally, he highlighted that the number of Ukrainian children killed was not accurately reported: the statement originally mentioned three deaths, but in reality, seven children from one family were killed in Dnipropetrovsk region.
Moreover, he revealed that a 3-year-old boy was killed by Russia in Kyiv region on Saturday. Sybiha called for UNICEF to condemn these war crimes and urged Russia to cease killing innocent Ukrainian children.
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