05/05/2022 14:38

The aggressor country deprives the citizens of Ukraine the right to access the necessary medical care

As of May 5, 2022, 400 health care facilities in Ukraine have been damaged, 40 of them have been completely destroyed, and they cannot be rebuilt.

As a result of enemy shelling, the Belgian hospital in Lysychansk, where the tuberculosis dispensary was based, broke out.

No medical institution survived in Luhansk region.

In many frontline regions, patients have limited access to important drugs.  In addition, the russian military continues to block humanitarian convoys that could deliver medicine to the temporarily occupied territories.

Russia violates the right of Ukrainians to life medical care guaranteed by the Hague and Geneva Conventions.  Such actions are contrary to the rules of international humanitarian law, namely Article 51 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, which explicitly prohibits attacks on civilians and civilian objects.

According to Article 7 of the Rome Statute, acts of large-scale or systematic attack on any civilian person, if such an attack is carried out knowingly and involves murder, destruction, deportation or forcible transfer, are crimes against humanity.

I appeal to the UN Commission for Investigation Human Rights Violations during the Russian military invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine.