Minister Liashko: Aggressors continue to fire on hospitals and ambulances

"There are terrible things that violate all possible and impossible conventions when the occupiers do not allow us to get to hospitals. The occupiers do not give the opportunity to enter a hospital, change the staff, bring food, bring the necessary medicines. We record all these crimes and the data will be submitted to the relevant international courts. I think that all those, who scorn at our patients in hospitals, will be punished," Minister of Health of Ukraine Viktor Liashko said on TV air, Ukrinform reports.

According to him, the enemy troops continue to fire on ambulances.

"We need a humanitarian corridor to deliver insulin and other medicines," he added.

Liashko stressed that Ukraine had appealed to Russia on this issue.

"We appealed to the Russian Federation saying that they must not prevent Ukraine from opening humanitarian corridors and delivering vital medicines to people with oncology, diabetes, patients in need of dialysis," Liashko said.

In general, according to the minister, the authorities in these difficult conditions throughout Ukraine have ensured the operation of pharmacies, control that prices do not rise. Meetings with manufacturers, distributors and pharmacy chains are held daily. The state also provides hospitals with medicines that are accessible.

Liashko noted that Ukraine had sufficient amount of medicines, the more so the humanitarian aid was being delivered. At the same time, hostilities have a negative impact on logistics. There are problems with both the delivery of medicines and raw materials to manufacturers.

On February 24, Russian president Vladimir Putin declared war on Ukraine and launched a large-scale invasion. Russian troops are shelling and destroying infrastructure, conducting massive shelling of residential areas of Ukrainian cities and towns using artillery, multiple launch rocket systems, and ballistic missiles. Martial law was imposed in the country and general mobilization was announced. Ukraine filed a lawsuit against the Russian Federation at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague.

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