"Hardest Thing Was Staying Alive": Ukraine Hospital That Was Open During War
NDTV
The hospital's recapture, from Russia, by Ukrainian troops on September 11 was a strategic victory for Kyiv, although its pre-war population of some 46,000 residents has dwindled to around 8,000 or 9,000.
In six months of Russian occupation and eight months of fighting, Izyum hospital in eastern Ukraine never stopped working, operating on wounded civilians in its basement while awaiting liberation.
This small but strategic town in the Kharkiv region was seized by Moscow in March and fully occupied a month later.
Its recapture by Ukrainian troops on September 11 was a strategic victory for Kyiv, although its pre-war population of some 46,000 residents has dwindled to around 8,000 or 9,000.
Since then, the hospital has managed to regain some semblance of normality after being connected to a generator and workers gradually replaced shattered windows.
