The first two months of 2025 saw continued attacks across Ukraine, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians and injuries to nearly 1,300 others, as the country marked the third year of the full-scale war.
Over 20,000 people were displaced from seven front-line regions, mostly from Donetska and Khersonska Oblasts. Access to vital services remained heavily impacted, with 60 verified attacks on health workers or health facilities and more than 70 education facilities damaged or destroyed.
Heavy fighting continued to affect humanitarian access. Seven humanitarian workers were injured in front-line areas, and strikes in the urban centres damaged humanitarian assets and facilities.
Despite the challenges, humanitarian organizations reached 1.6 million people with vital aid and services in the first two months of 2025
One million people received critical winter support as part of the 2024-2025 Winter Response Plan, including district heating support, fuel, heaters and winter clothes.
The announcement of funding suspension by a key donor in January 2025 led humanitarian actors to scale back or pause the provision of some programming. As the Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan received just 15.5 per cent of the required financing so far in 2025, humanitarian actors have re-prioritized the response toward four strategic areas: support to front-line communities, emergency response, evacuations and assistance for displaced people.
