Russian bombing of Lviv: our medical aid in the refugee camps does not stop

During the night, for the umpteenth time in recent months, the Russian army bombed the Greater Lviv area, the city where Mediterranea Saving Humans' Med Care for Ukraine project is active, providing basic health care to some 1,500 war refugees sheltering in the city.

Once again, electricity substations were hit, exacerbating the energy crisis affecting not only Lviv but the whole of Ukraine. Thirty-two rockets were fired, 16 of which hit their targets. Only yesterday the mayor of Lviv announced that almost all the city's substations were out of action. Tonight, the Russian army once again turned on civilians.

The lack of electricity, with temperatures well below zero, means that the lives of millions of civilians in cities and internally displaced people in camps are deteriorating. Without light, without heating, with water pipes freezing, the bombing of power stations and substations has the sole purpose of bringing the civilian population to its knees.

Our 15th Med Care for Ukraine medical mission is currently underway in Lviv. Our medical team report that air raid sirens went off during the night, forcing people into shelters. There are no casualties in the city or in the refugee camps.

Also today, our team activated the mobile medical clinic to travel to the sites of war-displaced people in the Russian-occupied east of the country to provide medical examinations and medicines.

Since the beginning of the energy crisis, our humanitarian mission, which began in March last year, has delivered generators to the city of Lviv every month to help provide electricity to civilians.

Today, more than ever, with the violence of war affecting civilians, the solidarity of European civil society is needed to guarantee energy support for civilians.

This is why our crowdfunding campaign is still active to purchase generators and support the humanitarian missions of the Med Care for Ukraine project.