War in Ukraine
"Thank you for your solidarity click.
It is a first strong signal of your support for the affected populations.
I invite you to find out more about what MSF is doing in the field and how you can help the people concerned."
Thomas Kauffmann
General Director
MSF Luxembourg
Over the past two years, we have worked on a number of key activities, including :
- Evacuation and referral of the wounded
- Provision of medical and mental health care
- Surgical, emergency and intensive care services
Over the past 12 months, we have focused on:
- Providing medical care in war-affected areas
- Providing mental health support, physiotherapy and transport for the war-wounded
- Responding to other needs, including physiotherapy, in central Ukraine.
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Humanitarian figures
Dernière mise à jour: Juillet 2024
refugees from Ukraine
IDPs inside the country
reeturnees (until April 2024)
Our response to the crisis
As of July 2024, there are still nearly 11 million people displaced by the conflict, including internally displaced people and refugees abroad. Over the past two years, it has become increasingly difficult to reach areas cut off by the fighting or close to the front lines. Missile and drone attacks remain constant and the front line stretches for more than a thousand kilometres.
MSF is organising its response to the humanitarian crisis by providing:
Medical referrals and evacuation by MSF ambulances.
Supporting the emergency care and intensive care unit as well as supporting the surgical capacity of hospitals near the frontlines in Donetsk and Kherson regions.
Physiotherapy and post-surgery care, and psychological support for war-wounded and injured patients, as well as physiotherapy trainings for staff in rehabilitation wards at hospitals supported by MSF teams.
Mobile clinics teams providing primary healthcare, mental health counselling and psychoeducation services, as well as sexual and reproductive healthcare, particularly in areas close to the frontlines.
Medical donations, including medical kits, equipment and medicine to hospitals and medical facilities with shortages.
Trainings about secondary healthcare, including mass casualty trainings, pain management trainings and mental health to healthcare staff.
primary health consultations from january to july 2024
mental health consultations from january to july 2024
patients transported by ambulance from january to july 2024
physiotherapy sessions from january to july 2024
Our staff on the field
international staff
local staff
MSF activities in Ukraine before 2022
MSF began working in Ukraine in 1999. Initially, our activities were focused on providing treatment for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and hepatitis C. Since 2014, war has been raging in eastern Ukraine, in the oblasts (provinces) of Luhansk and Donetsk. For people living in small villages close to the fighting, access to healthcare remains a challenge. Between 2014 and 2019, MSF helped conflict-affected people in the region by mobilizing mobile clinics, offering support to health workers from local organizations and training them to provide mental health care.
In 2020, MSF transferred a three-year hepatitis C project to Mykolaiv and responded to the COVID-19 pandemic in Zhytomyr and Donetsk oblasts by donating personal protective equipment, rapid diagnostic tests and oxygen concentrators to health facilities. We also offered psychological support to healthcare staff, patients and communities. In Donetsk oblast, MSF provided home-based care for patients with mild to moderate symptoms through its mobile clinics.
