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Highlights • As of early February 2023, WHO’s Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care (SSA) has verified over 760 attacks in Ukraine, with close to 700 attacks impacting health facilities. The situation is particularly dire in…

It has been one year since WHO scaled up operations following the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine. This has been the largest response operation supported by WHO’s Standby Partners in 2022. WHO recognizes the strong contribution from…

"First, we lost the dates and then the days of the week. It felt like one long day which would never come to its end", says Svitlana. Svitlana is a 57-year-old head doctor of the Primary Health…

By Iain Overton On April 19, 2022 at 5:20 p.m., a Russian missile struck the only hospital in Bashtanka, a district centre in southern Ukraine, destroying an outpatient clinic and critical equipment. The blast wave from the…

Executive Summary Situation Overview The war for Ukraine’s sovereignty began in 2014 when the Russian Federation forcibly occupied Crimea and supported insurrection in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. At the outset of 2022, the United Nations estimated that…

Background and Methodology At the end of October 2022, over 6.5 million people were estimated to be internally displaced within Ukraine. The massive destruction of civilian infrastructure, with the energy sector being particularly targeted in the fall…

New teams already work in: Ivano-Frankivsk region with the support of the Japanese Red Cross – 4 units; Lviv region – 2 units; Chernivtsi region – 3 units; Kirovohrad region with the support of the Danish Red Cross – 3…

Since the beginning of the war, Ukrainian Red Cross Society volunteers of the Kramatorsk city organization: evacuated more than 1,000 people; delivered 25,000 food kits; issued more than 10,000 warm clothes, 5,000 hygiene kits and about 120 sets of…

Another evacuation train with patients from Kramatorsk, Pokrovsk, and Sloviansk was received by the Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers in Ternopil. People with diabetes, lung, and cancer diseases were brought to the city station by the Médecins…

Geneva – One year ago, destruction and human suffering swept across Ukraine on a scale unseen in Europe in three generations. Towns and cities have been obliterated; tight-knit communities scattered by gunfire, missiles, and bombs. Today, children…