The medical staff were sent to separate areas of Donetsk and Luhansk region, which were temporarily occupied by the russians. Moreover, medics were sent to the still occupied and blocked Mariupol. The occupiers launched a campaign among Crimean medics to go to work in the Donbas during the fierce fighting. Russia urgently needed people who could provide medical services to the wounded Russian military. The Ukrainian president's office in Crimea urges Ukrainian citizens in the occupied Crimea not to declare any "voluntary actions" for Russians. Doctors are only a "living force" for the needs of the Kremlin.

Yaroslav Semchenko