Doctors risk their lives in Ukraine’s besieged hospitals

'Someone had to help these people. It's harder for me to do nothing, ' says oncologist Dr Nataliia Verovkina
Ukraine
A woman sits next to debris of a building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, 15 March 2022. Photo: AAP.

When Russian bombs started falling on Kyiv, oncologist Dr Nataliia Verovkina fled with her 10-year-old son.

But once her son was safe in Munich with his grandparents, she went back.

“Someone had to help these people,” said Dr Verovkina, who works at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute.

“It was harder for me to do nothing.”