'I have been analyzing attacks on healthcare for many years. These figures are truly staggering,' one expert said of conditions in Ukraine amid the Russian invasion.
The coalition on Thursday released findings of 1,014 attacks through mid-July, including 414 that damaged or destroyed hospitals; 79 on ambulances; 57 affecting children's hospitals; and 40 affecting maternal health facilities. Additionally, at least 148 health workers have been killed and another 106 injured.
When our accounting department and the blood transfusion center caught fire, [Russian forces] started hitting that area on purpose... [They] burned down. PHR's director of research and investigations, Christian De Vos, agreed, saying that"these deliberate and indiscriminate attacks on Ukraine's health system show how Russian forces use these vicious, illegal tactics to control, coerce, and punish civilians."
Uliana Poltavets, Ukraine emergency response coordinator at PHR, said that"Russia is also obligated to make reparations, including payment for reconstruction and rehabilitation, for its breaches of international law, and compensate the Ukrainian state and individual Ukrainians for loss of life and injury. International actors should hold Russia to account in this process."
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