continued……… Following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, in which an explosion caused a sharp increase in cancer among Ukrainian children, Cuba launched a decades-long humanitarian initiative that provided comprehensive, free, specialized medical care to more than 25,000 sick Ukrainian children at the Tarara Medical Complex near Havana, its own economic program.
That's why critics say Ukraine's vote to maintain a blockade that systematically starves Cuba's health sector, and consequently its children, reflects how geopolitical alignment with Washington has replaced historical memory.
"Ukraine has not paid anything. The vote to starve Cuba was their payment, I guess," noted documentary filmmaker Domhnall O'Lochrain, noting the irony behind the Kiev vote.