A small number of pharmaceutical companies that continue to operate in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region have increased prices for medicines by 3-5 times.
This was announced by the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmyla Denysova.
She clarified that there is a shortage of drugs for cardiovascular diseases and antipyretics in the Kherson region.
The occupiers are illegally importing drugs into the Kherson region from the temporarily occupied Crimea and selling them in natural local markets. These drugs are not certified and can endanger human life and health.
Denisova noted that the invaders do not allow volunteers from the territory controlled by Ukraine who are ready to deliver humanitarian aid. The Russians loot such goods and then sell them to the residents of the temporarily occupied territories.
Lyudmila Denisova stressed that the russian Federation's actions violate the rights of Ukrainians to medical care guaranteed by the Hague and Geneva Conventions. In particular, such actions are contrary to the provisions of Article 51 of the Additional Protocol to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949.
The Ukrainian Parliament's Commissioner for Human Rights appealed to the UN Commission to Investigate Human Rights Violations during the russian Military Invasion of Ukraine to take into account these facts of russian human rights violations in Ukraine.
Also previously stated, that inhabitants of the Kherson region report numerous cases of sexual violence from russians. Rape as a war crime is the most serious crime and one of the components of genocide. Russia uses rape and sexual violence in other forms as tactics of warfare.