Tag: Ukraine

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today released No Safe Place to Heal, a report documenting relentless attacks on healthcare and medical personnel in Ukraine. The attacks constitute a deliberate strategy to destroy the medical system and collectively punish people rather than being an incidental product of Russia’s invasion.   Between April 2022 and December 2025, MSF documented more than 20 attacks […]

Read More… from Ukraine: The destruction of healthcare is not a random consequence of war, it is deliberate and calculated

On the night of July 2, 2026, the Russian military carried out yet another massive attack on Kyiv, where Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff live and work. Official reports so far confirm 20 deaths and at least 86 people wounded. Among the targets was an ambulance station, where six personnel were injured: three […]

Read More… from Ukraine: An ambulance station and medical staff were hit in Russian attack

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