WHO Chief Says Warehouse Hit in Ukraine
WHO said 130 of about 300 pallets were evacuated before the strike destroyed the warehouse and its emergency medical supplies.
- World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported that a humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro, Ukraine, was struck and destroyed last Friday, holding emergency medical supplies for frontline health facilities.
- The WHO has recorded 3,148 attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine since the Feb 24, 2022 Russian invasion, with the vast majority involving heavy weapons, severely complicating relief efforts.
- Before the strike, WHO staff and drivers successfully evacuated 130 of approximately 300 pallets of emergency medical supplies from the site. No casualties were reported following the destruction.
- Doctors Without Borders, also known as MSF, condemned what it called Russia's "deliberate strategy to destroy the healthcare system" in Ukraine, while the WHO maintains a policy of not attributing blame for military actions.
- Russian forces recently launched a massive overnight attack on Odesa using missiles and 'Banderol' drones, injuring 12 people, amid a wider increase in long-range strikes causing growing civilian casualties.
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WHO warehouse in Dnipro destroyed: employees previously rescued 130 pallets with medical help.
The humanitarian warehouse of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Dnipro, Ukraine, was hit twice in less than 24 hours, the WHO announced.
The destroyed warehouse "contains humanitarian medical supplies for frontline health facilities", detailed WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Since the Russian invasion of 24 February 2022, the organisation has recorded 3148 attacks against health services in Ukraine. Our follow-upTo deepen Ingerence.The Russian attacks against Swiss neutrality are part of a "strategy of support for populist national parties", according to historian Jean-F…
A warehouse containing aid supplies was destroyed in an attack in Dnipro, Ukraine, World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reports on X. According to him, as far as is known, there were no casualties, but supplies were still stored there. Tedros condemns the attack.
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