MSF AU Our work in Ukraine continues thanks to you

Over the past two years, many of our supporters have shared with us their deep concern for the people of Ukraine and their desire to support MSF's work there.

While MSF's response in Ukraine has continued throughout this period, funding from other MSF operational centres meant that MSF Australia and MSF New Zealand focused our fundraising efforts on different humanitarian priorities across our portfolio. We are grateful for the patience and ongoing commitment of donors who remained passionate about supporting Ukraine during this time.

Since the full-scale escalation of the war in February 2022, the United Nations estimates that nearly 15,000 civilians have been killed, and another 40,000 injured as a direct result of the Russian invasion and every day, these figures increase.  

Hospitals, schools, markets, residential buildings, public buses and train stations have all been struck. Russian forces show no mercy for civilians. In July 2026 in Kyiv alone, more than 70 missiles and nearly 500 drones were reportedly launched, damaging residential buildings and targeting an ambulance station.

In Ukraine, the healthcare system itself has become a target, despite international humanitarian law forbidding attacks on patients, medical staff and facilities. And yet, the rules of war continue to be flaunted with assaults that may amount to war crimes under the Geneva Conventions continuing to occur.

Between April 2022 and December 2025, MSF counted more than 20 attacks on MSF-supported medical facilities and facilities MSF worked closely with.

Since the start of the large-scale invasion in 2022, 233 healthcare workers and patients have lost their lives in attacks on healthcare – including medical facilities and ambulances, and 930 others have been injured, according to the United Nations World Health Organization.

Eight hospitals where MSF worked had to be evacuated, four of which were completely destroyed, and seven ambulance bases had to be abandoned. Our staff have been wounded, and MSF offices have been damaged or destroyed. In East and South Ukraine, MSF has also lost access to over 80 villages it supported across six regions with primary healthcare mobile clinics.

While this conflict has been dropping out of the headlines, the violence has intensified, with 30 per cent more civilian causalities in 2025 compared to the year before. This reflects a growing disregard by Russian forces for the distinction between military and civilians.

In hospitals supported by MSF, medical teams have treated patients injured by artillery, missile strikes, and increasingly by drone attacks in urban and semi-urban settings, producing numerous victims with multiple wounds and fractures, higher infection rates and increased rates of sepsis.

MSF activities in Ukraine

MSF moved to a full emergency response mode in February 2022, initially developing medical evacuation trains, then moving into ambulance services, hospital support and primary healthcare. In 2024 and 2025, in near-frontline areas of the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Sumy and Zaporizhzhia, MSF teams provided medical support along a frontline stretching approximately 1,000 km.

MSF has continued to provide a wide range of services to Ukrainians. Between 2022 and 2025, this included providing more than 370,000 mobile clinic consultations.

In addition, in 2025 alone, MSF’s activities included:

• 12,904 Emergency Room admissions
• 10,722 ambulance referrals - 60 per cent of which were war-related
• 795 patients starting rehab during acute medical treatment to prevent long-term disability
• 1,053 surgeries performed or assisted
• 552 patients were admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

With no end in sight to this conflict, your support ensures our teams can continue to be there and support the people of Ukraine. We don’t take money from government in Australia / New Zealand – that means we are 100 per cent reliant on our generous donors just like you.

By donating to MSF's emergency fund, you can help ensure that MSF staff can provide medical assistance during times of crises where it is needed most—both in Ukraine, and around the world.

Your donation supports MSF's Emergency Fund and is not restricted to a specific country or emergency.

Thank you for your ongoing support for the people of Ukraine.