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Warehouses supplying the vast majority of Ukraine’s pharmacies have been destroyed in a series of Russian attacks over recent months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medical supplies worth about $200m (\u00a3145m) were destroyed in just two strikes in December and October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A large warehouse storing medicines in the city of Dnipro was destroyed in a Russian air strike on 6 December. As a result, about $110m worth of medicines were destroyed – estimated at up to 30% of Ukraine’s monthly supply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It was a missile and drone strike against our facility. The missiles flew past, but the drones hit it,” said Dmytro Babenko, acting director-general of pharmaceutical distributor BADM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“They caused a fire which unfortunately proved impossible to contain and the whole facility was destroyed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BADM is one of two companies that supply about 85% of Ukrainian pharmacies in roughly equal shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The other company is Optima Pharm, whose warehouses have been hit three times this year – on 28 August, 25 October and 15 November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The October attack destroyed its main storage facility in Kyiv, and cost the company more than $100m, says Optima Pharm’s chief financial officer Artem Suprun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russia denies hitting civilian targets, but when the Optima Pharm warehouse was hit in October, the defence ministry in Moscow said only that it had targeted a factory producing drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the day BADM’s warehouse was destroyed, Russia said it had hit “a warehouse storing military equipment” as well as energy and transport infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BBC: Warehouses supplying the vast majority of Ukraine’s pharmacies have been destroyed in a series of Russian attacks over recent months. Medical supplies worth about $200m (\u00a3145m) were destroyed in just two strikes in December and October. A large warehouse storing medicines in the city of Dnipro was destroyed in a Russian air strike on 6 December. As a result, about $110m worth of medicines were destroyed – estimated at up to 30% of Ukraine’s monthly supply. “It was a missile and drone strike against our facility. The missiles flew past, but the drones hit it,” said Dmytro Babenko, acting… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53282,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53280\/revisions\/53282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}