Ukraine’s field hospitals keep getting hit, so they are moving underground

From the article:

The hospital is a prototype, a new approach, after years of what the Ukrainians characterize as the systematic Russian targeting of their medical facilities. Everyone there had stories of medical colleagues killed after a field hospital was hit: Denis, killed by an Iskander ballistic missile; Kolya, killed by a guided bomb.

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“If we’d assumed from the start that Russia wouldn’t fight by the rules, maybe we’d have built differently. Back then, we used NATO-style field hospitals — modular, clean, visible. Too visible. They were easy targets.”

“Command centers have long been underground — with generators, comms, protection. We asked: If that works for battle control, why not for saving lives? And it does — no one had done it systematically,” Oleksii said. He hoped the example of his hospital would be picked up by the government and built elsewhere. For now it is the exception.