Dopo l’attacco delle forze russe sulla città di Kryvyi Rih, avvenuto ieri nella regione ucraina di Dnipropetrovsk, in cui sono morte 18 persone – inclusi nove bambini – secondo le autorità regionali, i team di Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) hanno fornito assistenza medica d’emergenza.
On April 4, Russian forces struck the city of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. According to regional authorities, 18 people were killed — including 9 children.
Dozens more were injured in the residential area of the city. Medical teams across the region continue to work relentlessly to save the lives of the most critically wounded.
MSF teams, working alongside state paramedics, provided emergency medical assistance at the scene — stabilising the wounded, delivering urgent care, and arranging referrals to hospitals.
Among the most serious cases was a seven-year-old girl suffering from shrapnel wounds, a fractured hip, and hemorrhagic shock. She was transferred by an MSF ambulance from a local hospital in Kryvyi Rih to a specialised facility in Dnipro for treatment.
Today, MSF is donating medical supplies to the hospital in Kryvyi Rih, which has received a significant influx of wounded. MSF ambulances also remain on standby to support medical referrals, should local hospitals — many of which are overwhelmed — need to transfer patients to specialised facilities.
“We strongly condemn this horrific attack. This merciless war continues to cause immense suffering to civilians. It must end — civilians must never be a target,” said Thomas Marchese, MSF’s Programme Director in Ukraine.
MSF ha stabilizzato i feriti, prestato cure urgenti e organizzato i trasferimenti in ospedale.
“Le persone sono state bruciate vive nelle loro auto vicino alle loro case. Nel parco giochi abbiamo visto i corpi senza vita di molti bambini: è stato straziante” dice Yevhen Blinnikov, un paramedico di MSF.
Tra i casi più gravi c’era una bambina di sette anni con ferite da schegge, una frattura all’anca e uno shock emorragico. È stata trasferita da un’ambulanza di MSF, da un ospedale locale di Kryvyi Rih a una struttura specializzata di Dnipro.
MSF sta donando forniture mediche all’ospedale di Kryvyi Rih, che ha ricevuto un notevole afflusso di feriti. Inoltre, le ambulanze di MSF rimangono pronte per supportare gli ospedali locali, molti dei quali sono sovraccarichi, a trasferire i pazienti in strutture specializzate.
“Condanniamo fermamente questo orribile attacco. Questa guerra spietata continua a causare immense sofferenze per la popolazione civile. Tutto questo deve finire, i civili non devono mai essere un bersaglio” dichiara Thomas Marchese, direttore del programma MSF in Ucraina.
On April 4, Russian forces struck the city of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. According to regional authorities, 18 people were killed — including 9 children.
Dozens more were injured in the residential area of the city. Medical teams across the region continue to work relentlessly to save the lives of the most critically wounded.
MSF teams, working alongside state paramedics, provided emergency medical assistance at the scene — stabilising the wounded, delivering urgent care, and arranging referrals to hospitals.
Among the most serious cases was a seven-year-old girl suffering from shrapnel wounds, a fractured hip, and hemorrhagic shock. She was transferred by an MSF ambulance from a local hospital in Kryvyi Rih to a specialised facility in Dnipro for treatment.
Today, MSF is donating medical supplies to the hospital in Kryvyi Rih, which has received a significant influx of wounded. MSF ambulances also remain on standby to support medical referrals, should local hospitals — many of which are overwhelmed — need to transfer patients to specialised facilities.
“We strongly condemn this horrific attack. This merciless war continues to cause immense suffering to civilians. It must end — civilians must never be a target,” said Thomas Marchese, MSF’s Programme Director in Ukraine.
