Russian Military Hospitals Have Run Out Of Space

Huge numbers of war wounded in Ukraine.

Russian military hospitals can no longer cope with the flow of wounded in the war against Ukraine. Due to a shortage of places for treatment of "participants of the SVO", civilian medical facilities are increasingly being given to them, writes "Novaya Gazeta Europe".

So, at the end of 2025, a women's consultation clinic in Omsk was closed, and the premises were converted into a polyclinic and handed over to the Defense Ministry. Earlier, the city liquidated maternity hospital No. 5, opening a military hospital instead. Now a new building of the clinical-medical-surgical center is being built in the region, "special attention in the work of which will be paid" to the participants of the invasion of Ukraine.

Local residents complain that it is becoming increasingly difficult for ordinary patients to get treatment. One of the townspeople said that her mother was refused hospitalization after a serious operation, saying: "There are no places! Esveoshniki... you know what I mean."

A similar situation is observed in other regions. In Moscow, the only hospital for patients with cystic fibrosis was converted into a military hospital, and in Rostov-on-Don the same thing happened with a maternity hospital.

Despite the construction of new medical facilities and the transfer of old ones for the treatment of the military, there are still not enough places in hospitals of the Ministry of Defense, so the wounded began to be placed in ordinary hospitals together with civilian patients. They are isolated in a special ward or put in common rooms. From 2023, participants of the war against Ukraine are obliged to be served out of turn.

According to the publication, almost every major medical center in St. Petersburg now has wounded at the front. For example, it has been publicly reported that the city's Mariinsky Hospital performed more than 2,000 surgeries on military personnel last year. A former nurse at the Dzhanelidze Emergency Medical Research Institute said that in general the scale tries not to advertise. "They don't spread much about SWOSHniki because there are so many of them, and no one wants to announce that there are so many of them that military hospitals can't accommodate them," she said.

The nurse also spoke of the constant problems created by such patients, including conflicts and disorderly conduct: "They were buying up alcohol, deliveries were constantly going to them, dumpsters were full of bottles, doctors and nurses were not listened to... There was a thick smell of schmaltz all over the ward." According to her, some of the military were later transferred to Severomorsk, Murmansk region, because they "ate almost all the antibiotics" and used up all the stocks of medical consumables intended for civilian patients.

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