Scots nurse in Ukraine saw wreckage of Russian tank with gun pointed at hospital
dailyrecord.co.ukA brave Scots nurse volunteering in Ukraine has told how he witnessed the wreckage of a Russian tank with its gun still pointing directly at a hospital.
David Anderson saw the devastation inside a wrecked hospital in Trostianets, in eastern Ukraine, which came under tank fire.
David, from Montrose, volunteers with frontline aid charity UK-Med and has also worked on humanitarian missions in South Sudan, Myanmar and Lebanon.
He said: “We walked into one hospital and they said that 200 were there but it felt like more. There were people with traumatic amputations, flesh burns, blast injuries."The volume is astounding.”There have been more than 130 attacks on healthcare facilities since Russia launched the invasion in February.David, the charity’s humanitarian health advisor, added: “I find it unbelievable and depressing that a hospital would be deliberately attacked.The tank is being guarded as evidence of a war crime.
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