{"id":6159,"date":"2025-05-08T12:01:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/russia-has-damaged-destroyed-over-2300-medical-infrastructure-facilities-since-beginning-of-full-scale-invasion-health-ministry-says\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:01:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:01:44","slug":"russia-has-damaged-destroyed-over-2300-medical-infrastructure-facilities-since-beginning-of-full-scale-invasion-health-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/russia-has-damaged-destroyed-over-2300-medical-infrastructure-facilities-since-beginning-of-full-scale-invasion-health-ministry-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/GettyImages-2160548877-1-.jpg\" alt=\"Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says\"><\/p>\n<p>Russian forces have damaged or destroyed more than 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since the start of the full-scale invasion, the Health Ministry said on May 7.<\/p>\n<p>Russia deliberately <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/russian-attack\/\">targets<\/a> critical infrastructure on a regular basis in Ukraine, including medical facilities, resulting in severe destruction and numerous <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/civilian-casualties\/\">civilian casualties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some 2020 medical facilities were partially damaged, while another 305 were completely destroyed, the ministry&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/moz.gov.ua\/uk\/ponad-2300-ob-yektiv-medichnoyi-infrastrukturi-poshkodila-ta-zrujnuvala-rosiya-za-chas-povnomasshtabnoyi-vijni\">statement<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p>Medical facilities in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Mykolaiv, <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/kyiv\/\">Kyiv<\/a>, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts were most affected.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the all-out war, one of the most destructive Russian attacks on medical facilities in terms of casualties was on the Ohkmadyt children&#8217;s hospital in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Russian forces hit Ukraine&#8217;s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russian-missile-attack-hits-okhmatdyt-children-hospital-casualties-reported\/\">children&#8217;s medical center<\/a> on July 8, killing two adults and injuring at least 34 people, including nine children. Footage showed that the building suffered a direct hit by a Russian missile rather than being damaged by fallen debris.<\/p>\n<p>The missile, fired from a plane of the 22nd Guards Heavy Bomber Aviation Division, kept maneuvering and changing its flight path, indicating an intention to <a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-probes-for-air-defense-gaps-to-wreak-havoc-in-kyiv\/\">bypass Ukrainian air defenses<\/a> and hit the medical facility, according to Ukraine&#8217;s Security Service (SBU).<\/p>\n<p>Apart from hospitals, outpatient clinics, and maternity hospitals, Russian troops regularly attack ambulances. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 116 ambulances have been damaged, 274 destroyed, and 80 seized.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine and its international partners have managed to fully rebuild 700 medical facilities and partially restore 312, including critical hospitals and primary health care centers in the frontline regions.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-bookmark-card\"><a class=\"kg-bookmark-container\" href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/64-year-old-animal-rescue-volunteer-and-son-killed-in-russian-attack-on-kyiv\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-title\">\u2018She fed all the birds, dogs, and cats\u2019 \u2014 64-year-old animal rescue volunteer and son killed in Russian attack on Kyiv<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-description\">Serhii Mandryk was on a call with acquaintances in Canada in the early hours of May 7. An air raid alert had sounded in Kyiv a few hours earlier but he decided to stay at home and go ahead with it rather than head for a shelter. He assured everyone that \u201ceverything is fine,\u201d but five minutes later he heard the familiar buzz of a Russian attack drone overhead. \u201cThen an explosion,\u201d the retired photographer told the Kyiv Independent later that day, standing outside the damaged five-storey apartme<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-metadata\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"kg-bookmark-icon\" src=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/assets\/images\/favicon.ico\" alt=\"Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says\"><span class=\"kg-bookmark-author\">The Kyiv Independent<\/span><span class=\"kg-bookmark-publisher\">Yuliia Taradiuk<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-bookmark-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/DSC7662-1.jpg\" alt=\"Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/tag\/ukraine\/rss\/<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the websitekyivindependent.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. The content was made available to us through the rss mechanism<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kyivindependent.com\/russia-has-damaged-destroyed-over-2-300-medical-infrastructure-facilities-since-beginning-of-full-scale-invasion-health-ministry-says\/\">Original Content<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian forces have damaged or destroyed more than 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since the start of the full-scale invasion, the Health Ministry said on May 7. Russia deliberately targets critical infrastructure on a regular basis in Ukraine, including medical facilities, resulting in severe destruction and numerous civilian casualties. Some 2020 medical facilities were partially damaged,<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/russia-has-damaged-destroyed-over-2300-medical-infrastructure-facilities-since-beginning-of-full-scale-invasion-health-ministry-says\/\"> [&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":6160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1152,1],"tags":[6218,5982,949,3005,2315,398,213,1818,3330,3670,2215,43,507,1171,51,832,1286],"class_list":["post-6159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kyivindependent","category-news","tag-6218","tag-beginning","tag-damaged","tag-facilities","tag-full-scale","tag-has","tag-health","tag-infrastructure","tag-invasion","tag-medical","tag-ministry","tag-of","tag-over","tag-russia","tag-says","tag-since","tag-destroyed"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/russia-has-damaged-destroyed-over-2300-medical-infrastructure-facilities-since-beginning-of-full-scale-invasion-health-ministry-says\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russia has damaged, destroyed over 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since beginning of full-scale invasion, health ministry says - News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Russian forces have damaged or destroyed more than 2,300 medical infrastructure facilities since the start of the full-scale invasion, the Health Ministry said on May 7. 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