First thing this morning, Russia attacked Ukraine

Ukraine

Since the escalation of the war in February 2022, until mid-October 2024, nearly 6.8 million refugees4 from Ukraine have been recorded – 92 per cent of them in Europe. Inside Ukraine, an estimated 3.6 million people5 remain internally displaced as of October 2024.

Among the most vulnerable are also an estimated 12.6 million as of March 2025 people who were not displaced from their homes but who have been directly affected by the war – they have been wounded, their homes have been destroyed, their family members died.

Civilian infrastructure, such as power grids, water supply networks. hospitals transportation infrastructure, have been targeted by the daily missile attacks, severely disrupting people’s lives across the whole country, and particularly in the East.

About 3 600 educational institutions, including nearly

2 000 schools,

have suffered damage with some 371 educational facilities totally destroyed since the escalation of the war.
There were over

2 100 attacks

on healthcare facilities, which have claimed at least 197 lives, including those of health workers and patients, and injured many more, severely disrupting health services.

10.10.2022

First thing this morning, Russia attacked Ukraine with a force we have not witnessed in a long time. Putin is taking revenge for the bridge to Crimea. Already dozens of missiles have fallen on Kiev, Lviv, Dnipro and many other Ukrainian cities. Panic can be heard in the voice of our partners in Kiev, Dnipro and Odessa for the first time. The missiles are still falling!

There is no power in Kiev. The temperature tonight dropped to 2 degrees. Residents who were slowly starting to function relatively normally, today again, as on 24 February, do not know what will happen next. They are afraid. They are thinking of fleeing.

Fear and the lack of access to energy sources, which makes it impossible to stay warm during the increasingly cold nights, means that many people will again choose to flee the country. Those who stay will need support. Just as they did in the early days of the war.

Let us not forget! Let us not get used to war and violence! A fundraiser for humanitarian aid is being launched on our homepage. We are working on a plan. We ask you to join the fundraiser and help us prepare. We will be resupplying the Bakhmut area again in the coming days. Thanks to you, we can be ready at any time to go to the next place, wherever help will be most needed.