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Russia damages and destroys 1,861 medical facilities in Ukraine over two years

26 August, 2024 Monday
18:38

Since the first days of the full-scale war, Russian missiles and shells have destroyed 215 medical facilities in Ukraine and damaged 1,646 more

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The press service of Ukraine's Ministry of Health reported this on August 26.

Among the damaged and destroyed institutions are hospitals, outpatient clinics, maternity hospitals, etc.

According to the report, the medical infrastructure in the Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions suffered the greatest losses. At the same time, it is currently impossible to find out information about the damage in the temporarily occupied territories.

In addition, over the two years of war, Russia has damaged 198 ambulances, destroyed 261 and seized 125 emergency vehicles.

"Ukraine has already managed to restore 885 medical facilities in full and partially. In particular, 530 medical facilities have been fully restored and another 355 have been partially restored," the Ministry's press service said.

Most facilities have been restored in the Mykolaiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions.

"First of all, we are talking about medical institutions in the territories liberated from the occupation, as well as those that have suffered minor damage, such as broken windows, destroyed roofs, damaged facades, etc.", the Ministry of Health said.

Russia's attack on Okhmatdyt

On July 8, Russia struck a children's hospital in Kyiv with the Kh-101 strategic cruise missile.

The next day, emergency and rescue operations on the territory of Okhmatdyt in Kyiv were completed, and at that time, two people were known to have been killed and 32 injured. However, on July 10, it became known that a boy who had been in intensive care at the time of the attack died in the hospital. On the morning of July 12, a 7-year-old boy from Prykarpattia, who was in Okhmatdyt during the Russian attack, died in Kyiv.

On August 9, Conflict Armament Research (CAR) found that the missile that hit the Okhmatdyt children's hospital on July 8 was manufactured in Russia only a few weeks, perhaps even a few days, before the attack.

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