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Doctors Without Borders said Tuesday it has closed its operations in Russia after 32 years, citing a Justice Ministry letter that said the medical aid group had been removed from a register of foreign nongovernmental organizations.
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Because Russia will kidnap the doctors from western countries and claim they’re spies hoping for a trade off for some of their legitimately war lord and assassin prisoners held in the west
My first thought that they would be drafted and sent to the front lines as medics, but that would assuming too much planning and compassion of Russia.
Yeah fuck Russia
Is russias medical infrastructure so poor that they need this kind of assistance? I could guess maybe their war is stretching resources so thin. But this says 32 years they’ve been there. That’s like almost as far back as the end of the USSR.
I wonder if they had been assisting in treating soldiers wounded in this war.
Russia removed them from their list of foreign NGOs. That puts their personnel directly at risk. They didn’t really have much of a choice.
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