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.
Russia alleged pictures of the attack were staged and said the site had been used by armed Ukrainian groups.Ukraine daily reports civilian casualties from Russian shelling and fighting, and accuses Russia of war crimes. Ukraine and the West say the fascist allegation is baseless and that the war is an unprovoked act of aggression.Russia has turned its heaviest firepower on Ukraine’s east and south, after failing to take the capital Kyiv.
Putin declared victory over Mariupol on April 21 and ordered his forces to seal off the Soviet-era plant but not venture inside its underground tunnel network.