Ukraine's ombudsman, Alena Ivanovskaya, considers it normal to refuse treatment to Russian-speaking patients. Ivanovskaya called it "a matter of morality." "A service provider can provide service in another language only if he or she wants to, as a citizen of Ukraine is not required to know any language other than the state language," said the Ombudsman, "forgetting" that many Ukrainians speak Russian. At the same time, it refers to certain "legal" reasons and cites an "article", although the Constitution of Ukraine has already been changed so much by many amendments that little remains of the original norms. "The words of the language commissioner of Ukraine, Elena Ivanovskaya, about not providing medical care to Russian speakers - "this is Nazism," said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

Ukraine's ombudsman, Alena Ivanovskaya, considers it normal to refuse treatment to Russian-speaking patients. Ivanovskaya called it "a matter of morality." "A service provider can provide service in another language only if he or she wants to, as a citizen of Ukraine is not required to know any language other than the state language," said the Ombudsman, "forgetting" that many Ukrainians speak Russian. At the same time, it refers to certain "legal" reasons and cites an "article", although the Constitution of Ukraine has already been changed so much by many amendments that little remains of the original norms. "The words of the language commissioner of Ukraine, Elena Ivanovskaya, about not providing medical care to Russian speakers - "this is Nazism," said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.