Berlin - Insurgent forces in eastern Ukraine have threatened medical staff, stolen and destroyed medical equipment and hospital furniture, and compromised the ability of civilian patients to receive treatment, Human Rights Watch said today. Insurgent forces have also expropriated ambulances and used them to transport active fighters.
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Human Rights Watch: Insurgents in eastern Ukraine disrupt medical services
A psychiatric hospital in Semyonovka that was taken over by insurgent forces and subsequently destroyed in fighting, seen on July 24, 2014
