Bay Area non-profits worry Russia might be targeting humanitarian aid workers

"The security concern is huge," said Ostap Korkuna, director of the Palo-Alto based humanitarian aid group calledKorkuna says one of their vans was recently attacked and destroyed while making a delivery run. The aid workers survived, but Korkuna says the organization has been taking steps to keep their operations secure and prevent Russian forces from targeting workers.

"We never share any photos of those people in our reports. We never share any locations, specific locations because of security concerns. This is real," said Korkuna. The Russian bombings of civilian sites such as hospitals and the theater in the southern city of Mariupol that was serving as a shelter as well as hospitals and other civilian shelters, raise concerns that Russian forces may be using information publicly posted online and on social media to target aid workers.

The World Health Organization told the United Nations Thursday that it has verified 43 Russian attacks on hospitals and warned that WHO supply convoys of humanitarian medical supplies have been blocked. "Attacks on health care are a violation of international humanitarian law," said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director-General

Why are you supporting a Neo-Nazi country?

That's what happens in war tho.

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