Tag: Ukraine

Across Ukraine, war-related insecurity combined with extremely stressful living conditions is triggering a worrying trend of late consultations, with people developing complications that could have been prevented with timely care. For months, many patients seeking routine consultations with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have ended up requiring hospitalization care, particularly older people. Manageable […]

Read More… from Ukraine: When chronic turns critical, a silent health crisis

“I didn’t leave my apartment all winter,” says Hanna, a 97-year-old woman, who is confined to her apartment on the 11th floor of a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine. “It was very cold at home and I was constantly shaking. I really want to stay sane after all this.” In February 2026, after repeated shelling […]

Read More… from Ukraine: Helping Kyiv’s at-risk residents through power cuts

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams, together with staff from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health, provided medical assistance to patients injured during a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in Kherson on March 11. “One of the patients is a female medical worker who was returning home from her shift when the drone […]

Read More… from Ukraine: MSF provides emergency care for bus passengers wounded in a drone attack

“To be ‘alive’ is the lowest bar and the highest achievement for everyone” MSF health promotion manager Katsa Juliana Shea joined MSF in January 2022 and has since worked in Bangladesh, Haiti and South Sudan. She shares her experience. The absurdity of this war lies in its contradictions: the way life keeps going in parallel […]

Read More… from Ukraine: Four years of full-scale war

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) runs the recovery mental health centre in Vinnytsia, where we have been providing specialized psychotherapeutic care since September 2023. This includes mental health support and treatment for people experiencing symptoms of war-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD often appears alongside anxiety, depression, insomnia and physical symptoms, as well as […]

Read More… from Ukraine: “The war is not always visible”

Death and the celebration of life have become part of the same day — and sometimes I still don’t know how to process that. It has been almost nine months since I stepped away from my role in Ukraine, yet I am still trying to understand how war and ordinary life coexist: How people continue […]

Read More… from Ukraine: “Death and… life have become part of the same day” 

As temperatures drop as low as -20° C in Ukraine, millions of people are forced to live with limited electricity, heating and running water as Russian forces continue to bomb the country’s energy infrastructure. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff and patients alike are living and working without basic necessities, some in homes already […]

Read More… from Ukraine: Surviving the cold amid Russian strikes on energy infrastructure

During the night of Nov. 4, Russian military forces carried out strikes on Synelnykove district in Dnipropetrovsk region, hitting civilian infrastructure and private homes. Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) supports a hospital close to the frontline in this area, where wounded patients were brought for emergency care.  An MSF team – including an anesthetist, […]

Read More… from Ukraine: Emergency response after attacks in Dnipropetrovsk region

On April 4, Russian forces struck the city of Kryvyi Rih in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region. According to regional authorities, 18 people were killed, including nine children.  “People were burned alive in their cars near their homes. On the playground, we saw the lifeless bodies of many children – it was heartbreaking,” says Yevhen Blinnikov, a paramedic […]

Read More… from Ukraine: MSF teams support, provide ambulance referrals after attack on Kryvyi Rih