Russian forces hit Ukrainian psychiatric hospital – regional governor

On Mar 11, 2022

Russian forces hit a psychiatric hospital near the eastern Ukrainian town of Izyum on Friday, regional authorities said.

The Governor of the Kharkiv region, Oleh Synegubov said, “Over 330 people had been at the hospital at the time, some of them confined to wheelchairs or unable to move, and that 73 had been evacuated.

“The number of casualties was being established.

“This is a war crime against civilians, genocide against the Ukrainian nation,” Synegubov added.

Russia has denied targeting civilians in what it calls a special operation to disarm and de-Nazify Ukraine.

Synegubov said, separately that Russian forces had shelled residential areas of Kharkiv, the main city in the region, 89 times in one day but that there was no danger to civilians after an institute containing a nuclear laboratory was hit.

According to Synegubov, there are no threats to the civilian population yet.

“All Ukrainian nuclear power stations are operating stably but staff in the Zaporizhzhia plant are facing psychological pressure at work following its capture by Russian forces,” the Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said.

Radiation levels at all plants had not changed, it said.