As a result of shelling by Russian aggressors in Ukraine since the beginning of the war, 16 hospitals have been damaged, six doctors have died.

According to the monitoring data of the Ukrainian Health Center, which records information about cases of shells hitting the building of medical institutions, attacks on ambulance teams and casualties among medical workers in Ukraine, as of March 5, twenty-three cases of attacks on hospitals and doctors in Ukraine were recorded.

In particular, Russian shells hit medical institutions in Donetsk region (Vuhledar, Volnovakha, Mariupol, Chasiv Yar village), Luhansk region (Lysychansk), Kyiv region (Buzova village), Zaporizhia region (Melitopol, Vasylivka village), Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Kharkiv.

Most medical facilities were damaged in Kharkiv - City Hospital No. 3, Regional Children's Hospital, Blood Center, six doctors were injured.

Another six wounded doctors were recorded after being hit by a cluster projectile fired by the Russian military at a hospital in the town of Vuhledar, Donetsk region.

Russian troops fired at three maternity hospitals (the village of Buzova, the cities of Mariupol and Zhytomyr), there were no casualties among doctors and patients.

The Russians fired at the ambulances seven times, four doctors were killed.

As a result of the shelling of emergency medical vehicles and private cars of doctors who were traveling to provide assistance, two doctors were killed and three were injured. Attacks took place in Sumy, Kyiv, Poltava, Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.

In addition, on March 3, in Trostyanka, Sumy region, separate groups of Russian soldiers blocked the work of ambulance teams, and therefore they were unable to serve calls; on March 4, on the Sumy-Kyiv road, an ambulance came under fire from the Russian army.