Ukraine

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought devastating destruction for the country’s people as lives have been lost and Ukraine’s fundamental infrastructure for social, health and economic services has been degraded.

Insecurity Insight documents conflict events affecting aid operations, education, food and water systems, and health care as well as incidents of conflict-related sexual violence and explosive weapons use in Ukraine.

Our data can be downloaded on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) and corresponding reports can be accessed below.

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2024 SHCC Factsheet (EN)

2024 SHCC Factsheet (UK)

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Ukraine Health Map

Health Care

Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Ukraine, and based on its data, in the Ukraine chapter (in English and Ukrainian) of the 2024 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Epidemic of Violence identified 544 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in 2024. In these incidents, health facilities were damaged at least 359 times. Emergency medical services were attacked on at least 74 occasions and 78 health workers were killed.

– Russian forces regularly launched attacks on Ukraine’s energy system, affecting health services.

– The use of drones armed with explosives that impacted health care surged in 2024.

– Quick hospital repairs, temporary service relocations, and 12,000 generators kept some health facilities operational despite damage and power outages.

Download the report data. Explore the data visually using our interactive map Attacked and Threatened: Health Care at Risk.

A Horrific Milestone: More Than 1,000 Attacks on Health Care in Ukraine Since Russia’s Full-scale Invasion

More than 1,000 attacks on health care workers and infrastructure have been recorded since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, according to documentation and monitoring by human rights and humanitarian organizations. This equates to approximately two attacks per day on health care facilities, workers, and other medical infrastructure.

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Published every two weeks, Insecurity Insight’s Attacks on Health Care New Brief tracks global threats and violence as well as protests and other events affecting the delivery of and access to health care. Explore our interactive map – available in English and Ukrainian -to see where incidents happened.

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Hunger and Conflict

The war has had devastating implications for both Ukrainian and global food security. 

Often referred to as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’, Ukraine is one of the world’s most highly-cultivated countries and a key supplier of global food commodities. In 2020, it accounted for 36 per cent of global trade in sunflower oil and seeds, 13 per cent in corn and 11 per cent in barley. 

The war has depleted Ukraine’s ability to export these key commodities. Farmland is contaminated with unexploded ordnances. Key food transport infrastructure has been destroyed. And Russian blockades on Ukrainian ports have disrupted global food supply chains. 

As the World Food Programme notes, a “shortfall in export supplies is driving prices up, leaving import-dependent countries with higher food import bills – or less food to eat.” These processes have added to existing crises to create a situation in which a record 349 million people globally face acute food insecurity. 

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Report co-authored by Insecurity Insight and other NGOs featured by CNN

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Destruction and Devastation: One Year of Russia’s Assault on Ukraine’s Health Care System, a joint undertaking between Insecurity Insight, eyeWitness to Atrocities, the Media Initiative for Human Rights, Physicians for Human Rights and the Ukrainian Healthcare Center has been featured by CNN.

Christina Wille talks to The Hindu

Christina Wille talks to The Hindu

The sick, wounded, and young mothers, rest on blankets and mattresses on the floor without proper hospital beds. Hospitals cannot function and patients are at great risk of dying from totally avoidable complications.

Read the full interview with our Director, Christina Wille, and The Hindu’s Bindu Shajan Perappadan on the condition of health care professionals and health facilities in Ukraine.

Ukraine: The Human Price of War

Ukraine: The Human Price of War

Watch this video by CSIS Global Health Policy Center with SHCC chair Len Rubenstein on indiscriminate attacks on civilians and hospitals. Will Russia continue its pattern of indiscriminate violence?