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In Russia, military hospitals have ceased to cope with the influx of soldiers wounded in the war against Ukraine, prompting authorities to begin converting civilian hospitals, maternity wards and individual medical departments on a mass scale for the treatment of military personnel.

Source: Russian news outlet Novaya Gazeta Europe

Details: Journalists report that following the start of the full-scale invasion, Russian military hospitals ceased to cope with the influx of wounded servicemen. As a result, Russian authorities began building new hospitals, transferring civilian medical facility buildings to the Ministry of Defence and opening special military wards in ordinary hospitals.

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