Christopher Stokes, the Emergency Coordinator for MSF Ukraine, talks about the human toll this war has taken.

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Russian forces have invaded Ukraine from land, air and sea with strikes causing widespread damage. Global leaders have condemned the move and imposed sanctions.

Ukraine Invasion

Russian military strikes in Ukraine have intensified, resulting in at least six civilian deaths within a 24-hour period. The Zaporizhzhia region was among the areas hit, with a recreation center bombed. According to Christopher Stokes, Emergency Coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Ukraine, the situation in Kyiv and along the front lines has worsened, with frequent drone and missile attacks targeting civilian infrastructure, including homes, schools, and hospitals.

Medical evacuation efforts are becoming more difficult as even hospitals further from the front lines are now at risk of being struck. Stokes described the challenges faced by his teams, including evacuating a severely wounded teenager to a hospital in Kyiv that itself had previously been attacked. The ongoing violence has made it increasingly hard to ensure the safety of both patients and medical staff.

Attacks on Ukraine intensify amid stalled peace talks

And returning now to our top story today, as we wait for more details to emerge from Steve Witkoff's meeting with the Russian president, on the ground in Ukraine, at least six people have been killed by Russian strikes in the last 24 hours. You are looking here at video of the Zaporizhzhia region, the aftermath today of a deadly bombing on the recreation center there. My next guest is Christopher Stokes. He's the Doctors Without Borders Emergency Coordinator for Ukraine. His teams work as medical staff in the war-torn country and evacuate patients from hospitals along the front lines to safer locations. We're really grateful, Chris, for you being with us today, especially as we are hearing now on almost a daily basis how Russia's summer offensive is gaining ground, that Kiev is coming under constant bombardment now from drone warfare, and that these attacks are, you know, they're indiscriminate. They're against homes, hospitals, schools. I know you've just returned from Ukraine. How is the situation now compared to some of your previous visits? Yeah, hello. You're right to describe the change, certainly in Kiev, as being a worse situation than it was before. You basically have nearly 19 bombardments, drones flying overhead, and you never know which building it's gonna hit next. Most of the targets do seem to be civilian. And we've also had attacks on hospitals. This has happened in Kiev itself, but it's happening very often along the front line. 50, 40, 50 kilometers from them, from many, many attacks on hospitals and Russian missiles or drones or artillery strikes landing, three in which we've been working only in the last four weeks, actually. Yeah, I mean, a part of your work is to evacuate war-wounded civilians from the front lines, military personnel as well. How has your work been affected, impacted to do that? I mean, are you still able to evacuate people to hospitals or has that slowed? From the beginning of the war, we've moved around 30,000 people evacuated from mainly hospitals that are not far from this 1,000 kilometer, 600 mile front line. I'd say that it is getting harder. One of the problems is that even the hospitals you refer them to, so further into the country, which are safer, maybe have more specialized care, can themselves be a target. A few weeks ago, when I was in Ukraine, we evacuated a 17-year-old girl from Sumy. She was a wounded attack. She had cerebral hemorrhage, 30% burns across her body. We took her in the ambulance and we drove her to Kiev. Her mother couldn't come with her because her mother was attending the funeral of her own son. The father was still believed to be under the rubble. And the hospital we referred her to was itself attacked last year in a Russian missile attack on Kiev itself. So one of the difficulties is working along the front lines as the drones come deeper and deeper. And secondly, even into supposedly safe hospitals where you refer to deeper into the country, you're not immune from an attack there as well.

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