His municipality Kiev announced today the emergency evacuation two hospitals in the Ukrainian capital, including a children’s hospital, in fear of Russian raids in these facilities.

“The city authorities began to urgently evacuate two hospitals, including a children’s hospital (…) as a video widely shared in online media foreshadowed a hostile attack on these medical facilities,” the city hall announced on Telegram .

The video in question claims that these two hospitals located on Boyatyrska Street in the northern suburbs of Kyiv are treating soldiers who are “hiding behind sick children”. These “terrorists (…) will all get the punishment they deserve,” insists a man in the video.

“This is an absolute lie and a provocation by the enemy, who is trying to use it to damage the capital’s social infrastructure,” Kyiv City Hall charged, saying it was doing everything possible “to transport patients and doctors to other medical facilities in the capital.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, at least 1,682 attacks on healthcare facilities in Ukraine have been recorded, according to data released by the World Health Organization in early April.

Those bombings resulted in at least 128 deaths and 288 injuries to medical staff and patients, according to the WHO, which lamented an “alarming escalation” in the early months of this year with almost one attack per day between January and March.