This photograph shows burned cars at the site of a Russian air attack in Odesa on August 9, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. [AFP]
A World Health Organization warehouse stocking medical supplies in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has been destroyed, the WHO chief said Sunday.
"Last Friday, the WHO humanitarian warehouse in Dnipro, Ukraine, was struck and destroyed. At this time, no casualties have been reported," the UN health agency's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X.
He said that a WHO staff member and drivers had been at the site earlier in the day, and "the team had succeeded in evacuating 130 of approximately 300 pallets and left the area before the attack".
He said the warehouse "held humanitarian medical supplies intended for frontline health facilities -- primarily WHO emergency health supplies".
The WHO records attacks on healthcare around the world but, under its rules, does not attribute blame for them.
It has recorded 3,148 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine since the February 24, 2022 Russian invasion, with the vast majority involving violence with heavy weapons.