Russia–Ukraine War (May 5): Russian Fighting Destroys, Damages Nearly 400 Hospitals, Medical Centers: Zelenskyy

MSF doctors Stig Walravens (2nd R), 33, and Yaroslav (L), 39, care for Oleh, 58, a patient on a medical evacuation train on its way to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on April 10, 2022. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images

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Russian Fighting Destroys, Damages Nearly 400 Hospitals, Medical Centers: Zelenskyy

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform surgery, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy said many places lacked even basic antibiotics in eastern and southern Ukraine, the main battlefields.