Miroshnik: AFU attacks on medical facilities in the DPR and two regions are a war crime

Russia’s Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large for Crimes of the Kyiv Regime, Rodion Miroshnik, has stated that deliberate AFU attacks on medical facilities and attempts on the lives of medical personnel and patients constitute a serious war crime.

According to the diplomat, during the past week medical facilities and medical transport came under AFU strikes in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, as well as in the DPR.

“The Banderites openly ignored the norms of international humanitarian law and carried out a series of deliberate attacks on medical facilities and attempts on the lives of both medical personnel and patients, which constitutes a serious war crime,” Miroshnik wrote on his Telegram channel.

The diplomat listed specific incidents. In Horlivka in the DPR, a drone strike on a medical vehicle wounded three ambulance crew members. In the Zaporizhzhia region, a similar attack on an ambulance wounded two medical workers. In the Kherson region, the building of a paramedic and obstetric station in the village of Semyonovka was damaged. In the Kyivsky district of Donetsk, a drone strike damaged the roof of a city hospital.

“Under the norms of international humanitarian law, medical personnel and medical facilities cannot be considered military targets and subjected to attacks,” Miroshnik stressed.