Inna Lytvynenko says she was hunted by Russian drones when she tried to help a wounded woman in Kherson
Inna Lytvynenko always puts on her bright orange body armour when she's out on an emergency call.
Last June, the paramedic was sent out in Kherson to treat a woman injured in a Russian drone attack, when an FPV drone smashed into her ambulance.
Seconds later, she heard a buzzing sound in the sky. Another drone was flying straight towards her, fast.
"I panicked. I grabbed my trauma bag and started running," she recalls. "I shouted and screamed. I knew that if I stopped, I would die."
After chasing her for about 10 minutes, the drone flew away. Lytvynenko was quickly picked up by police.
But what she called the "safari hunting" continued. Drones hit two more vehicles that arrived to take the injured woman to hospital. Hours later, a third police car finally managed to get her out.
After another "safari" attack earlier this week, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called to put greater pressure on Russia in order to stop deliberate "hunting attacks" on civilians.
The frequency of attacks on healthcare suggests that they are "a sustained feature of the war", MSF says
Hospitals and ambulances in Ukraine are increasingly coming under Russian drone and missile attack, even though, according to the international rules of war known as the Geneva Conventions, they must be protected by all parties to the conflict.
"This is a new normality, which should not be the normality," says Dr Jarno Habicht, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Ukraine.
The WHO has registered 3,118 attacks on healthcare since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022. "That's two cases per day," Habicht says.
Since 2023 the number of attacks on healthcare has steadily grown. In 2024 it went up by 30%. Last year there was another 20% increase. This trend is expected to continue this year.
A recent Doctors Without Borders (MSF) report, external says that Russia systematically and often deliberately targets Ukrainian medical facilities. The frequency of attacks on healthcare suggests that they are "a sustained feature of the war rather than an episodic consequence of large scale offensives," the report said.
Last month Russian missiles hit a hospital in Kherson, badly damaging the building and killing one doctor.