In one of the largest missile attacks on Ukraine, Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, the country’s largest children’s hospital, was hit today. Children with serious medical conditions, some requiring critical life support, are waiting for evacuation or re-hospitalisation, according to the...
Médecins Sans Frontières strongly condemns the missile attack on its office in Pokrovsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on April 5th, at approximately 3:15 am. The building was destroyed completely and five people were injured, including MSF’s security staff. As a result, MSF has suspended its medical...
“About six months ago, everything was shelled – the medical point, the pharmacy, and all the infrastructure destroyed… but it wasn’t the end,” says Liudmyla Karatsiuba. “We built houses, we strengthened our community.” Liudmyla is a resident near Kupiansk, one of the most volatile areas on the...
Médecins Sans Frontières has evacuated 150 patients from a hospital in Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, due to ongoing shelling. This was the second time MSF has had to evacuate patients from the same hospital in the past year as a result of attacks on the facility. Hospitals are being targeted...
The war in Ukraine has created a huge need for psychological support ranging from psychological first aid to comprehensive psychological care. People have experienced fear, trauma and isolation and are showing symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress. MSF psychologists are responding to mental...
The same hospital that was shelled on last Tuesday in Kherson Region, Ukraine, resulting in the death of a doctor and the wounding of five medical staff, was once again under artillery fire on 4 August. The fact that the first attack was widely reported and condemned appears to have changed nothing...
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) reveals the massive and widespread destruction of health facilities in Ukraine, and the severe impediments to medical care under Russian military occupation. MSF urges all warring parties to uphold international humanitarian law and their...
Alexander Shcholokov is now the medical advisor of the MSF project in Dnipro, in south-eastern Ukraine. He talks about his experience and his daily life as a Ukrainian doctor.
MSF works in several towns and villages in southern Ukraine that for months were on the frontlines or under Russian control. In many of these places, our teams witness massive destruction, including of healthcare facilities, and people report that access to healthcare has been extremely limited for...
At midnight on Thursday, a Russian missile struck a five-story residential building in Zaporizhzhia city, in Zaporizhzhia oblast (province), southeastern Ukraine. The building housed approximately 300 people in 70 apartments. In collaboration with local authorities, emergency teams from Médecins...
