One year later

ONE year ago, on February 24 in 2022, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, launched an invasion of Ukraine from the north, east and south.

At the time Putin explained that the “special military operation was aimed at demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine in a bid to protect ethnic Russians, prevent Kyiv’s NATO membership and to keep it in Russia’s sphere of influence."

As of February 12, 2023, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) tragically verified a total of 7,199 civilian deaths during Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Of them, 438 were chil ­