WHO humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro destroyed in strike, Director-General says
Staff evacuated less than half of roughly 300 pallets of medical supplies before the warehouse was hit on 7 August.
A World Health Organization (WHO) humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro was destroyed by a strike on August 7, according to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who reported the incident on August 9. The warehouse held medical supplies meant for frontline medical facilities. Ghebreyesus stated that 3,148 strikes have been recorded since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of 240 people and injuries to 1,055.
Evacuation efforts were underway before the strike, during which time 130 of the approximately 300 pallets were removed. The destruction of the warehouse left no one injured. Ghebreyesus did not attribute blame for the strike, emphasizing the need for a cessation of attacks on healthcare facilities, stating that wars must follow certain rules, one of which is the protection of health.
Other recent strikes on healthcare infrastructure include the killing of five people in Dnipropetrovsk oblast on August 6, the burning of five ambulances in Kyivmedspetstrans on August 1, and the damage of five medical facilities in Kyiv on June 2.
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