Ukraine war latest: Terrorised medics at hospital bombarded by shelling say Putin ‘wants to destroy fabric of our lives’

A UKRAINIAN hospital, left in ruins due to devastatingly constant Russian shelling, has reopened its doors to try to help injured civilians. One doctor, Dimitry Fedorenko, spent the first three months of the war against Ukraine sleeping on the floor of his own office. The head of anaesthesiology at Mykolaiv hospital, told the Guardian of the fateful night where the hospital was barraged with missiles and flames. He said: “That was a terrible night,” recalls Fedorenko, “very scary one for all of us, with a huge intake.” “They are destroying hospitals, the university; schools that are empty during summer, the port and shipyards,” he told the Guardian’s Ed Vulliamy of the horrors of the strikes. Fedorenko continued: “They want to destroy the fabric of our lives. “They hit an oil refinery just in front of my house; even the firefighters’ training centre was hit.” One brave paramedic, Anatoly Sobolevskiy, told the publication: “The army medics are in the trenches, and they usually do the primary evacuations. “Though sometimes we have a military situation ourselves, in the red zone just near here, and find ourselves right on the frontline.” Read our Ukraine-Russia blog below for the latest updates…