Zelensky on destruction of hospitals by invaders: This is barbarism

Attempts by the Russian military to destroy Ukraine's medical and social infrastructure testify to the self-destruction of Russia as a state that can be seen as a cultural nation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a nightly video address, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.

"During the fighting since February 24, Russian troops have destroyed 570 healthcare facilities. 101 hospitals were completely destroyed. What is it? This is nonsense. This is barbarism. This is the self-destruction of Russia as a state that at least someone in the world could look at as a cultural nation," Zelensky said.

He stressed that the efforts of the invaders to destroy the country's medical and social infrastructure will not stop Ukraine and it will continue to invest in the development of hospitals, as it did before the full-scale war with Russia started.

"We invested in the development of medicine and all social infrastructure before the war, and we will definitely continue to do so after the war. Let the occupiers not hope that they will stop us," Zelensky said.

According to him, the Russian army also launches strikes on schools, as Russian troops did in the Chernihiv region.

"Of course, the Russian state is in such conditions that any education only hinders it. But what can be achieved by destroying Ukrainian schools? All Russian commanders who give such orders are just sick. Incurably. But all the hospitals that the occupiers destroyed, all the schools, all the universities that they bombed, all the houses, bridges, businesses - we will rebuild everything," Zelensky said.