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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ed Vulliamy in Mykolaiv

Inside hospital on Ukraine’s frontline: ‘Russia wants to destroy fabric of our lives’

Flames tear through Mykolaiv’s civilian hospital on 1 August after a Russian cruise missile strike. Now it’s reopened to treat casualties  as Ukraine fights to liberate Kherson.
Flames tear through Mykolaiv’s civilian hospital on 1 August after a Russian cruise missile strike. Now it’s reopened to treat casualties as Ukraine fights to liberate Kherson. Photograph: Stanislav Kozliuk/Reuters

The doctor dons his white coat for the first time since 1 August, many long weeks ago.

That was the day that Mykolaiv’s main civilian hospital took a direct hit from a Russian cruise missile, reducing the trauma centre to charred masonry and its gaping innards, and damaging the main building sufficiently to put the first floor pharmacy, second floor laboratory, third floor gynaecology department, fourth floor urology and fifth floor traumatology centres out of action.

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