A low three-digit number of war wounded from Ukraine is currently being treated in Germany.
The Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK) informed the FAZ on request that as of Friday 162 people in Germany were being treated.
These are only people who were transported to Germany via state mechanisms.
The basis for this is bilateral agreements with Ukraine or the European Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM).
People who came to Germany by other means are therefore not statistically recorded.
Lorenz Hemicker
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As a spokeswoman for the BBK reported, the number of injuries was initially significantly lower and has now increased since the admission processes have become established.
The distribution of the injured in Germany is about evenly distributed.
The federal states regularly hold their own conferences to discuss where the patients will be admitted and how they will be distributed.
The processes based on the so-called cloverleaf concept were tested during the peak of the corona pandemic, when seriously ill people were distributed from areas with overburdened hospitals in Germany.
What is new is that in addition to the five existing cloverleaf regions against the background of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the BBK is involved as a sixth element.
As the spokeswoman for the BBK explained further, no distinction is made between civilians and soldiers – as provided for in international humanitarian law.
However, the proportion of patients treated at German military hospitals is reported.
Accordingly, four of the 162 people are treated in the Bundeswehr hospitals.
Of the five facilities that the armed forces have, Hamburg, Ulm and the central hospital in Koblenz are currently involved.
Before the Russian attack, Ukrainian soldiers who had been injured in the war in eastern Ukraine since 2014 were treated there.