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At the start of summer, the halls of the district hospital in Hola Prystan, a city in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson region, had become unnervingly silent. Long electricity outages regularly left the building in complete darkness. Much of its equipment and medical stock had been removed or diverted for military needs, while many trained employees had either fled or stopped working there. “They even carried away some of the furniture,” says Natalia Sergeevna, a nurse who worked at the