Ukraine War discussion - Threat to Public Health

[kiwibird]

You have reproduced heresay in this article and also use a slur from a known russian propagandist. News articles are investigating the use of chemical weapons by russia - https://theweek.com/news/world-news/...com/post/19108 The use of chemical weapons in Ukraine has yet to be proven. Certainly vague reports of a flu like illness do not constitute verified news.

[kiwibird]

Cluster munitions were not even supplied to Ukraine at the time this article was written. [Personal insult removed] If these people had been in the occupied territory they would have received treatment in the occupied territory or in russia - not in Lviv. https://www.chathamhouse.org/2023/07...-message-world Date of this article 11 July 2023. The cluster munitions to this date were only used by russian troops.

[kiwibird]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12498023/DAVID-PATRIKARAKOS-reveals-horrors-seen-Ukrainians-living-Russian-occupation.html

"..Just days ago, it was confirmed that insulin will now not be issued to anyone in the occupied territories who does not have a Russian passport —even children. Treatment of other diseases will also now be refused. The order came from the highest levels...."

[kiwibird]

These are all russian propaganda talking points. The plain fact of the matter is that Ukraine was at peace until invaded by russia,( https://www.gov.uk/government/topica...nment-response), is obviously not afraid of NATO as they have reduced most of their troops on the NATO Scandinavian borderhttps://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-forces-near-norway-are-20-fewer-than-before-ukraine-war-norways-armed-2023-09-16/

[kiwibird]

From 2018 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/re...bullets-175219
Russia is arming its tanks with controversial depleted uranium shells.

[Emily]

19 Sep 2023
Military.com | By Katie Livingstone

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Analysts now estimate that between 20,000 to 50,000 amputees are in Ukraine, with tens of thousands more killed or otherwise injured. Such a massive influx of amputees has not been seen in Europe since World War I, and with the war’s end nowhere in sight, Ukraine has already become home to one of the largest populations of amputees anywhere in the world, joining countries like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Sudan, Bosnia and Rwanda. Several new rehabilitation centers opened in Ukraine last year in response to the exponential growth in amputee victims.
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“We want to become the biggest rehabilitation center in Europe,” Sadovyi said.

The Unbroken consortium is already the largest medical group in the country, made up of over 1,000 doctors, and has already treated thousands of patients, including adult and child victims of the war. A big part of the project is focused on sharing best practices and other resources amongst rehabilitation centers across the country...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/09/19/ukrainian-vets-learn-navigate-world-bodies-war-has-changed.html

[Emily]

There are photos of the family's surviving 5 eyes. The little boy who kept both eyes clearly has severe damage. Though cluster munitions are used by several countries, only two, Ukraine and Syria, have used them on their own citizens. - E.

CASE REPORT article


Front. Med., 18 May 2023
Sec. Ophthalmology
Volume 10 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2023.1171954

Case report: Bilateral eye injuries in members of one family due to a cluster munition in Ukraine

Katarzyna Nowomiejska^1* Katarzyna Adamczyk¹ Dariusz Haszcz¹ Nataliya Preys² Robert Rejdak¹

• ¹Chair and Department of General and Pediatric Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland
• ²Lviv Regional Hospital, Lviv, Ukraine

The aim of the study was to report the effects of surgical treatment of three victims of a cluster munition in Ukraine. A 32-year-old woman and her sons—6-year-old male twins—presented in Poland after 18 days of delay in treatment. All ocular injuries were bilateral. One of the boys presented with total retinal detachment and a post-traumatic cataract as well as corneal sutures in one eye and a post-traumatic cataract in the other eye. The other boy had already developed atrophy in one eye and a vitreous hemorrhage in the other eye. The woman suffered from bilateral post-traumatic cataract with multiple glass intraocular foreign bodies (IOFBs). The surgical treatment included cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation in three eyes, removal of IOFBs in one eye, and enucleation of the atrophic eye with implantation of an ocular prosthesis preventing constriction of face tissues. The eye with retinal detachment underwent pars plana vitrectomy, and the vitreous hemorrhage resolved itself. Postoperatively, visual acuity improved significantly in four of six eyes. Only in the eye with an open-globe injury and persistent retinal detachment, the final visual acuity was still poor. In conclusion, cluster munition may lead to bilateral ocular trauma with IOFBs, open-and close-globe injuries, and severe vision loss if left untreated. Modern ophthalmic surgery leads to vision with IOL improvement and solving the eyes after severe combat injury.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1171954/full

[Pathfinder]

Ukraine war: Putin says Russia does not reject peace talks

Published
7 hours ago

President Putin gave a wide-ranging press conference in St Petersburg following a meeting with African leaders

By Marita Moloney
BBC News

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he does not reject the idea of peace talks on Ukraine.

Speaking after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg, he said African and Chinese initiatives could serve as a basis for finding peace.

But Mr Putin also said there could be no ceasefire while the Ukrainian army was on the offensive.

In the hours after he spoke, Russia said a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow had damaged two office blocks.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66351867

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Zelensky after Moscow drone attack: War coming back to Russia

Published
47 minutes ago

By James Gregory
BBC News

Ukraine's President Volodymr Zelensky has warned war is coming to Russia after a drone attack on the capital Moscow.

Mr Zelensky said attacks on Russian territory were an "inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process" of the war between the two countries.

Russia's defence ministry said three Ukrainian drones were downed on Sunday, with two crashing into offices.

Vnukovo Airport, southwest of the city centre, was also briefly shut.

The drone attack in the early hours of Sunday is the latest that Moscow has blamed on Kyiv. Ukraine rarely claims responsibility for attacks inside Russia.

But in a video address on Sunday from the western Ukrainian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, Mr Zelensky said that Ukraine was getting stronger.

"Today is the 522nd day of the so-called 'Special Military Operation', which the Russian leadership thought would last a couple of weeks," he said.

"Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia - to its symbolic centres and military bases, and this is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process."

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66352765

[Emily]

Bielka, K., Kuchyn, I. & Horoshko, V. Intensive care units during the Ukraine war: challenges and opportunities. Intensive Care Med (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-023-07117-5
... Pain management and long-term consequences

Acute and chronic pain management has become one of the most significant problems during the war in Ukraine. Approximately 80% of ICU patients injured during war experience severe pain [3]. Pain becomes chronic in nearly 83% of combatants with blast injuries and 75% with gunshot wounds [4]. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in 82% of traumatized combatants, becoming a national challenge in the future years.
... Resistant wound infections management

Since 2021, we have had a national standard on antibiotic therapy prescription and de-escalation in Ukraine, although it does not include antibiotic therapy guidelines for patients with blast injuries and deep soft-tissue infections. The Joint Trauma System also gives no clear guidance for the treatment of combat trauma-related infections [8]. Combat injuries, especially from blast-related trauma, are usually more complicated than civilian trauma.
Deep soft-tissue infections and osteomyelitis develop in 50–75% of blast-trauma cases and result in substantial mortality [8, 9]. The most common pathogens, which caused wound infections during the war in Ukraine, are Pseudomonas aeruginosa (22.5%), Proteus mirabilis (21.3%), Staphylococcus aureus (23.8%), Streptococcus pyogenes (18.8%), and Escherichia coli (13.8%); with resistant wound infections increasing mortality up to 12% [10]. Almost all patients receive antibiotics from the first day of injury, with nearly 80% being carbapenems, often in combination with vancomycin or fluoroquinolone. As the patient moves from one hospital to another at the stages of evacuation, there is little antibiotic stewardship and heterogeneity in the used dosages and antibiotics in different hospitals. Highly variable antibiotic prescriptions have resulted in selective resistance for frequently used and currently effective antibiotics. Resistant infection also causes delays in patient transfer to specialized centers and surgical treatment due to the need of isolation...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-023-07117-5

[Emily]

https://news.antiwar.com/2023/05/28/state-department-wont-say-if-its-working-to-free-us-citizen-detained-in-ukraine/

State Department Won’t Say If It’s Working to Free US Citizen Detained in Ukraine

Gonzalo Lira, a popular YouTuber and writer, was arrested by the SBU for his political views on the war by Dave DeCamp Posted on May 28, 2023Categories NewsTags Ukraine The State Department has refused to say if it’s engaging with the Ukrainian government over American citizen Gonzalo Lira, who was detained by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) due to his political views on the conflict with Russia.
Lira has a popular YouTube channel and a large following on Twitter and Telegram. He is also a writer who has contributed to several media outlets, including Business Insider. Lira was born in California and is a dual citizen of the US and Chile and had been living in Kharkiv, Ukraine, throughout the war...

[Emily]

https://eisenhowermedianetwork.org/russia-ukraine-war-peace/

The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World


The Russia-Ukraine War has been an unmitigated disaster. Hundreds of thousands have been killed or wounded. Millions have been displaced. Environmental and economic destruction have been incalculable. Future devastation could be exponentially greater as nuclear powers creep ever closer toward open war.

We deplore the violence, war crimes, indiscriminate missile strikes, terrorism, and other atrocities that are part of this war. The solution to this shocking violence is not more weapons or more war, with their guarantee of further death and destruction.

As Americans and national security experts, we urge President Biden and Congress to use their full power to end the Russia-Ukraine War speedily through diplomacy, especially given the grave dangers of military escalation that could spiral out of control.

Sixty years ago, President John F. Kennedy made an observation that is crucial for our survival today. “Above all, while defending our own vital interests, nuclear powers must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war. To adopt that kind of course in the nuclear age would be evidence only of the bankruptcy of our policy–or of a collective death-wish for the world.”

The immediate cause of this disastrous war in Ukraine is Russia’s invasion. Yet the plans and actions to expand NATO to Russia’s borders served to provoke Russian fears. And Russian leaders made this point for 30 years. A failure of diplomacy led to war. Now diplomacy is urgently needed to end the Russia-Ukraine War before it destroys Ukraine and endangers humanity.

The Potential for Peace

Russia’s current geopolitical anxiety is informed by memories of invasion from Charles XII, Napoleon, the Kaiser and Hitler. U.S. troops were among an Allied invasion force that intervened unsuccessfully against the winning side in Russia’s post-World War I civil war. Russia sees NATO enlargement and presence on its borders as a direct threat; the U.S. and NATO see only prudent preparedness. In diplomacy, one must attempt to see with strategic empathy, seeking to understand one’s adversaries. This is not weakness: it is wisdom.

We reject the idea that diplomats, seeking peace, must choose sides, in this case either Russia or Ukraine. In favoring diplomacy we choose the side of sanity. Of humanity. Of peace.

We consider President Biden’s promise to back Ukraine “as long as it takes” to be a license to pursue ill-defined and ultimately unachievable goals. It could prove as catastrophic as President Putin’s decision last year to launch his criminal invasion and occupation. We cannot and will not endorse the strategy of fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.

We advocate for a meaningful and genuine commitment to diplomacy, specifically an immediate ceasefire and negotiations without any disqualifying or prohibitive preconditions. Deliberate provocations delivered the Russia-Ukraine War. In the same manner, deliberate diplomacy can end it...

Hat tip: More Cowbell For Ukraine While Former U.S. Military Officers and Diplomats Plead for Sanity

[Emily]

Haass says maybe in 10-15 years there could be a diplomatic return of Ukraine's territories.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65716503

US diplomat: Ukraine’s allies need new diplomatic tactic

Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, explains to the BBC why calls for a diplomatic end to the conflict are increasing. Regaining invaded territory will only come after a ‘change in Moscow’s leadership', Haass said.

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[Emily]

Russia has said they will consider a trade after his trial, which may take a year. He might have been talked into doing something stupid for propaganda purposes by US interests or covertly for trade purposes by Russian interests.

[sharon sanders]

Russian Security Service Detains Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich

The reporter is part of the newspaper’s Moscow bureau; the Journal ‘vehemently denies’ allegations against him, seeks his immediate release


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Russia last March passed a censorship law that makes it illegal to publish what authorities deem false information about military operations in Ukraine. In response, many domestic news outlets ceased operations or left the country and foreign media significantly restricted reporting inside Russia and withdrew many staff.

more....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian...bd505?mod=e2tw


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The regime was probably not to happy with this report 2 days ago:



Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone

Investment is down, labor is scarce, budget is squeezed. Oligarch: ‘There will be no money next year’

By Georgi Kantchev and Evan Gershkovich

March 28, 2023 10:45 am ET

MOSCOW—The opening months of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year drove an increase in oil and natural-gas prices that brought a windfall for Moscow. Those days are over.

As the war continues into its second year and Western sanctions bite harder, Russia’s government revenue is being squeezed and its economy has shifted to a lower-growth trajectory, likely for the long term.

more....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/russias...ing_now_news_3

[alert]

Her father has now fled and his whereabouts are unknown:

https://www.aol.com/news/russia-convicts-father-teen-drew-194326214.html