The United Nations humanitarian coordinator said on June 25 that he had asked Russia to provide details on how it was using the location coordinates of hospitals in Syria following a string of attacks on health-care facilities.
Coordinates of medical facilities are shared via the UN to the warring parties in Syria under a humanitarian deconfliction system with the aim of protecting them from attack.
Despite this mechanism, more than 23 hospitals have been hit by strikes since Russia-backed regime militias launched an offensive in the northwestern province of Idlib in late April, according to the UN.
"I have written to the Russian Federation to request information as to how the details provided through the deconfliction mechanism are used," Mark Lowcock, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the Security Council.
The report is mainly based on Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty and other agencies.
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