In transit for survival: MSF ambulances and Ukraine’s war-wounded

September 6, 2024

“It’s insufferable. Everything hurts. It’s hard to breathe; it burns everywhere.” A 45-year-old man whispers these words, barely moving his lips, as he waits for medical evacuation from a frontline hospital in the Donetsk region. He was severely injured in...

Ukraine: Attack on Okhmatdyt children’s hospital in Kyiv

July 9, 2024

In one of the largest missile attacks on Ukraine, the country’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmatdyt Children’s hospital, was hit on 8 July 2024, resulting in deaths and injuries.Children with serious medical conditions, some requiring critical life support are waiting for evacuation or re-hospitalisation...

Ukraine: MSF condemns missile attack that destroyed its office in Donetsk region

April 8, 2024

The international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) 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,...

Kostiantynivka: 34 patients hospitalised after deadly attack on marketplace

September 8, 2023

After an explosion yesterday in a marketplace in Kostiantynivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been responding to urgent medical needs of people injured in the attack. At Kostiantynivka Hospital, where MSF supports the Ministry...

Safeguarding the mind: protecting mental well-being amidst the war in Ukraine

August 8, 2023

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...

Positive stories in the middle of a war?

May 16, 2023

Ivan M. García, MSF Spain Head of Media "Hey, try to bring back some positive stories, too!” is a mantra offered by colleagues each time one of us in the MSF communications team goes out to projects. It's also a classic...

Ukraine: MSF teams treating patients after missile attack on residential building in Zaporizhzhia

March 2, 2023

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 Sans Frontières (MSF) are...

Ukraine: MSF helps survivors of Dnipro blast

January 17, 2023

In the three days since an attack on a residential building in central Dnipro killed at least 40 people, teams from international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have been providing survivors with medical care, psychological first aid...

Caught between the frontlines: the babushkas experiencing loss, mental trauma and an absence of medical care

December 4, 2022

As the Russian army took control of towns and villages across Ukraine’s Kharkiv region in late February 2022, those unable or unwilling to leave their homes were mostly the elderly and people with disabilities. Caught up in the middle of...

Data and patient accounts reveal “no mercy” for civilians in Ukraine war

June 22, 2022

Medical data and accounts from patients evacuated on Médecins Sans Frontières’ (MSF) medical referral train show that the war in Ukraine is being conducted with an outrageous lack of care to distinguish and protect civilians. Over 40 percent of the...

Ukraine: “When the soldiers took over the clinic, I treated patients in my home”

June 5, 2022

Between 25 February and early April, the town of Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, was the scene of brutal fighting, and for a time was under the control of Russian forces. As soon as it was relatively safe to...

“I don’t feel heartache, it’s deep in my soul” – The mental health needs in Ukraine

June 3, 2022

“I feel fear in my soul. My fingers and hands begin to get cold,” says Vira, an elderly woman who fled the Donetsk region and is now seeking shelter in Ivano-Frankivsk, in the southwest of the country. “I’m worried about...