Ukraine is facing a growing humanitarian crisis, international health experts have warned, as relentless Russian missile attacks on residential areas in several cities have left hundreds of civilians dead and forced almost 900,000 to flee the country.
As Moscow, defying global condemnation and overwhelming political and economic isolation, claimed yesterday to have seized the first large city of its campaign and the Ukrainian president accused it of aiming to “erase” his country, the World Health Organization said some health supplies were running out.
“We are moving closer to a humanitarian crisis,” Jarno Hubicht, the WHO representative in Ukraine, told the Guardian. “This is moving very fast. Health service provisions are being moved to shelters and basements. We are concerned about electricity provision, oxygen and medicines.”
WHO chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the group was also working to verify multiple reports of “attacks on health facilities and health workers”, adding that attacks on healthcare would be “a violation of international humanitarian law”.
A second round of talks between the two sides was due to begin today, Russian negotiators reportedly said, adding that a ceasefire was “on the agenda”. However, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has said Moscow’s demands are unacceptable and Russia must stop bombing cities if progress is to be made.
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