image: Fig 2. Damage to the Mariupol Maternity Hospital consistent with direct impact from bombardment. Mariupol Maternity Hospital on March 18, 2022 (left) and March 29, 2022 (right). Republished from Maxar Technologies Inc. under a CC BY license, with permission from the US Department of State, original copyright ©2022 MAXAR.
Credit: Image Credit: Poole et al., 2025, PLOS Global Public Health, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Three-quarters of medical facilities in Mariupol sustained damage during Russia’s siege of 2022, with some evidence that the attacks may have been intentionally targeted, per study using satellite imagery.
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0003950
Article Title: The effect of conflict on damage to medical facilities in Mariupol, Ukraine: a quasi-experimental study
Author Countries: Germany, United States
Funding: This work was supported by the US State Department's Conflict Observatory in the form of a grant (GR122699 to KK, NAR, and DNP) and the Yale School of Public Health Rapid Response Award in the form of an award (to KK, NAR, and DNP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS Global Public Health
Article Publication Date
15-Jan-2025
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.