# Russian envoy to OSCE says denying care over language violates Hippocratic oath

https://mins.news/en/item/121108

- TASS, 2026-10-29 16:15 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/society/2210331

> Russia’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, Dmitry Polyansky, said refusing medical care to Russian-speaking patients because they do not speak Ukrainian is unacceptable and violates the Hippocratic oath. Responding to Ukrainian language ombudsman Yelena Ivanovskaya’s statement, he called the position “barefaced Nazism.”