How One Besieged Hospital in Ukraine Treated Wounded Citizens, Soldiers, and Invading Russian Troops

At one point, the doctors overheard that the occupying authorities, appointed by the Russians in consultation with Ukrainian collaborators, had become unhappy with the arrangement of payments. So these authorities started pressuring Volodymyr Todosenko, the acting chief of the hospital, to reregister the facility, placing it under Russian jurisdiction. Todosenko’s saving grace: There was no coherent procedure for such a transfer, according to Ukrainian experts on the region, since the Russians, who had enough trouble running the war, had not set up a clear system for governing the area. To some of the members of Snihurivka’s medical team, this bureaucratic… Read Full Article