9 days ago · Ukraine
‘The nurse used the torch on her phone to do the op’: hospitals stripped of resources in Ukraine’s occupied territories
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a conflict story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The reports are tied to Ukraine. The first report grouped here was at 7 Oct 2026, 08:00 UTC. The headline in use is “‘The nurse used the torch on her phone to do the op’: hospitals stripped of resources in Ukraine’s occupied territories”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Clinics and hospitals in affected areas lack staff, power and medicines, with supplies redirected to the Russian military Earlier this summer, the once bustling corridors of the district hospital in Hola Prystan, a city in the Russian-occupied Kherson region of Ukraine, were ominously quiet. At times, it was plunged into…
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