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Pro-Russian armed men and Russian soldiers have broken into the territory of the military hospital in Simferopol, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry reported on Monday. 

According to the ministry’s press service, the attackers forced the entire command of the hospital out of the administrative building and then gathered the medical staff in an assembly hall “for communication with the allegedly new administration of the institution.”

The ministry said that 20 seriously ill patients were currently undergoing treatment at the hospital and that one of then was inintensive care.