MSF Ukraine

MSF carried out a targeted medical evacuation of three patients from Dnipropetrovsk region to Kyiv, Ukraine. This type of transport allows people with serious injuries to be taken to specialist hospitals as quickly as possible.

“Sometimes we speak. Sometimes we are silent. Sometimes the simplest things can heal – the opportunity to breathe in again,” says Viktoriia Muliarova, MSF psychologist. Her team in central Ukraine helps patients with severe injuries and amputations adapt to their new lives.

Another patient arrived with a serious leg fracture and significant blood loss and received timely treatment. Both women are currently in stable condition. Drone strikes on civilians in Kherson, including on vehicles and pedestrians, have become a frequent occurrence.

“One of the patients is a female medical worker who was returning home from her shift when the drone struck the bus,” says Olha Severyn, MSF anaesthesiologist at the hospital in Kherson.

MSF teams, together with staff from Ukraine’s Ministry of Health, provided medical assistance to patients injured during a Russian drone attack on a passenger bus in Kherson on 11 March. At least 20 people are reported as injured.

Civilians must never be the target. Either in horrific direct attacks like this, or through the slow extinguishing of healthcare, electricity, heating, and other essential utilities, we see the burden on civilians near frontlines in Ukraine increasing month by month, week by week

“Today’s strike directly on a passenger bus must be seen as yet another breach of the rules of war,” says Robin Meldrum, Country Director for MSF in Ukraine. “Whether this was targeted, or a thoughtless and indiscriminate act, it is a violation of International Humanitarian Law.”

Today, a passenger bus was hit by explosives in Kherson city, reportedly dropped from a Russian drone. To date, at least 20 patients were dispatched to several hospitals, including the one that MSF supports in Kherson.

“I stay away from home for 14 days. I live and work in a hospital,” – says Nadiia Tokar, MSF paramedic. Together with a team, she provides medical care to people in a hospital in southern Ukraine. Due to the war, people in frontline regions have difficult access to healthcare.

The war affects women's lives. They learn to be stronger, more resilient, and not afraid to take on additional responsibility for other people's lives in conditions of uncertainty. On #InternationalWomensDay we want to thank our colleagues for their willingness to help others.

“People are seeing their lives, their livelihoods being destroyed, and then they come here to get some safety and basic assistance, but even that is difficult," – Christopher Stokes, MSF senior humanitarian advisor, about life in a shelter for displaced people in Dnipro, Ukraine.

According to the WHO, over 2,800 health facilities nationwide have been damaged or destroyed, and medical staff near the frontline are increasingly scarce. MSF teams continue to support hospitals and primary healthcare as close to frontline areas as possible.

Fighting continues to empty towns and villages. MSF’s increased presence in shelters through mobile medical clinics. Consultations provided by our mobile teams more than doubled in 2025 compared to 2024 — increasing from 4,327 to 9,500.

The scale of destruction in Ukraine is enormous and has only grown since Russian forces invaded in 2022. MSF teams have also been forced to adapt – leaving seven hospitals and over 40 locations where they were running mobile clinics – when the situation becomes too dangerous.

MSF continues to support hospitals and medical facilities across Ukraine to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable, ensuring patients receive the care they urgently need despite ongoing infrastructure challenges.

Items donated to the facility included: · an energy storage system with backup batteries, · five 500-litre containers for storing water and food, · 25 rechargeable flashlights, · and 150 heated blankets powered by portable power banks.

Due to attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on the civilian energy infrastructure in Ukraine, the situation with power outages in the Kyiv region remains severe. Medical institutions and care homes for the most vulnerable people are struggling under these conditions.

Hospitals in Dnipropetrovsk region face constant inflows of war-wounded and staff shortages. MSF supports frontline hospitals to help save lives when every minute counts.

One critically injured patient was evacuated by MSF ambulance to Dnipro on mechanical ventilation, receiving life-saving care during referral.

On 1 February, Russian forces attacked an energy service bus causing a mass casualty event who has reportedly killed 12 people. MSF teams were deployed immediately to support the hospital in Dnipropetrovsk region receiving the injured.