Ukraine: Critical health supplies destroyed in ongoing Russian attacks

Ongoing and deadly Russian attacks across Ukraine are causing serious healthcare disruption, with more than $1.5 million-worth of medicines and supplies destroyed in four separate strikes on warehouses used by the UN there since July. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 21 warehouses have been targeted this year, out of a total of 400 incidents, almost all involving heavy weapons which is classified as firearms, tanks, missiles, bombs and mortars. Speaking to UN News, WHO Communications Officer Sarah Tyler described what WHO witnessed at hospitals and warehouses that had come under attack: “When you stand in those places, you really understand what the numbers mean. “In just three months, four warehouses used by WHO were hit and three were destroyed…The health workers I met keep caring for patients under extraordinary pressure; protecting health care means protecting them.”Growing tollThe development comes amid a large wave of large-scale attacks by Russian forces across Ukraine this week. Strikes overnight into Wednesday killed at least three people in Kyiv and left hundreds of thousands without power.This was despite the announcement by President Trump last Friday o...