WarMonitor, an OSINT investigator who regularly posts about the war in Ukraine, tweeted: “The administration of the 1472nd military hospital in Sevastopol, annexed Crimea, carried out a ‘deratization’, spreading rat poison throughout the building, including the kitchen.
“Eight Russian soldiers poisoned themselves with food and died, and 18 are fighting for their lives.”
The hospital is reported to have played a key role in the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
At the time, 1472nd NCH was headed by Colonel Evgeniy Kryukov, who was later transferred to Moscow to take over the running of a military hospital in Russia’s capital city.
An investigation by researchers at Inform Napalm claimed that under Colonel Kryukov’s management, medical officers and other staff at the 1472 were involved in the occupation of Crimea.