\n
<\/p>\n
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 21 warehouses have been targeted this year, out of a total of 400 incidents<\/strong>, almost all involving heavy weapons which is classified as\u00a0firearms, tanks, missiles, bombs and mortars.\u00a0<\/p>\n Speaking to UN News, WHO Communications Officer Sarah Tyler described what WHO witnessed at hospitals and warehouses that had come under attack: \u201cWhen you stand in those places, you really understand what the numbers mean.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn just three months, four warehouses used by WHO were hit and three were destroyed<\/strong>\u2026The health workers I met keep caring for patients under extraordinary pressure; protecting health care means protecting them.\u201d<\/p>\n The development comes amid a large wave of large-scale attacks by Russian forces across Ukraine this week. Strikes overnight into Wednesday killed at least three people in Kyiv and left hundreds of thousands without power.<\/p>\n This was\u00a0despite the announcement by President Trump last Friday of an \u201cenergy ceasefire\u201d between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n Over the weekend, other Russian attacks included one in Zaporizhzhia that killed more than 20 people including four children.\u00a0<\/p>\n Following the bombing, the UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) highlighted the \u201cunimaginable loss\u201d for families, insisting that the violence \u201cmust not become the new normal\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n WHO has verified more than 3,300 attacks on healthcare<\/strong> since the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. A total of 247 people have been killed and more than 1,090 health workers and patients have been injured, according to data compiled by the agency.<\/p>\n The agency underlined that the consequences of attacks extend well beyond damage to individual buildings. \u201cWhen warehouses and other humanitarian installations are hit, medicines, medical equipment, laboratory reagents and other essential supplies can be lost, disrupting the support that health facilities need to treat patients,\u201d explained Dr Ihor Perehinets, WHO Regional Emergency and Health Security Director.<\/p>\n He stressed that Ukraine\u2019s health workers face \u201cextraordinary pressure\u201d while continuing to deliver care.\u00a0<\/p>\nGrowing toll<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Under pressure<\/strong><\/h2>\n