Crimeans as Russians live two years longer, Ministry of Health reports

The head of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Veronika Skvortsova, stated that over five years, the life expectancy of Crimeans has increased by an average of two years and currently stands at 72.7 years.

"This rate is much higher than the global rate of the life expectancy increase per year," she said.

At the same time, she also reported that when Crimea became part of Russia, the health care on the peninsula needed an urgent modernization of the diagnostic and therapeutic technologies.