Dr Abdelkareem Ekzayez, the general secretary of SBMS joined members of Syrian civil society to engage with high level officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as key Ukrainian stakeholders, in Kyiv, to commemorate 10th Anniversary of Chemical Weapon attacks in Syria. 

Among other activities, they visited the relocated Mariupol hospital in Kyiv. “The doctors of this hospital miraculously escaped the occupation in Mariupol which had experienced the systematic attacks by Russian air and land forces. As a form of resistance, this hospital was re-established in Kyiv until they will be able to go back home. Doctors and members of the Syrian delegation who were subjected to the same Russian policy, and who advocate against the bombing of hospitals, stood with them side by side.”

Read the press statement in English and Arabic below #SyriansinUkraine

SBMS is pleased to stand with other Syrian Civil Society actors in solidarity with Ukraine