Hospital manager Mykhailo Kovalskyi shows the grenade that hit the grass outside the building to SVT's team.

It appears undetonated.  

- Well, he says, they shoot at this area almost every day. 

That's why he doesn't want any more patients admitted, it's too dangerous to be here, so only the very sickest are being prepared.

Instead, he receives patients during the day, much like in a health center, and sends home everyone who can manage with the help of others.

It is also a problem to cook and heat the halls when you don't have electricity.  

- But at least we have some access to water, he says with a tired smile.

"Just worried about my employees and patients"

There is constant rumbling from the other side and we prepare to go back into the city - as if it would be safer there, now that the Russian artillery fire seems to be increasing in volume and has already claimed several lives.  

This could get worse quickly, I say, mentioning cities like Mykolaiv and Kharkiv.

He doesn't quite understand my question, but explains that if the patients quickly become more numerous, they can be taken inland into Ukraine, where it is safer.  

But aren't you afraid for your own part, I ask.

Then he just answers, with his cautious smile, in the same way as almost everyone I've met this year in Ukraine:  

- I am only afraid of my employees and my patients, after these nine months of occupation I am not afraid of anything anymore.