KYIV. June 23 (Interfax) - The Ukrainian Health Ministry told Interfax it has information that four children have been killed in the military operation in the Donetsk region and it has no information on the children killed in the Luhansk region.
"According to official reports filed by forensic experts, four people have been killed. Those children were killed in the Donetsk region. There is currently no information on the children killed in the Luhansk region," the Ukrainian Health Ministry press service reported on Monday.
The press service did not specify the causes of the children's death.
At the same time, Tatiana Bakhteyeva, the head of the parliamentary committee on healthcare issues, said on Monday over forty children have died of fragment and bullet wounds in Donbas.
The press service for Bakhteyeva said she has received this information form her own sources. "She received this information from her own sources, primarily form morgues and doctors."
"Unfortunately, information on the number of killed is not being collected in a centralized way," Bakhteyeva was quoted by her press service as saying.