Lviv commemorates 243 dead children in Ukraine war with school buses memorial

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy claims 200,000 Ukrainian children have been forcibly taken to Russia

The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has commemorated the children killed during the Russian invasion. Titled excursion that will never happen", the city's memorial featured empty school buses with stuffed toys strapped into seats to represent each of the 243 children so far claimed to be lost in the war.

On Wednesday Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, made note of International Children's Day during his nightly video address to the nation, saying that since Russia began its latest invasion of Ukraine on 24 February, Ukraine's emergency services had counted 243 children as killed, 446 wounded and 139 missing.