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.
Insecurity Insight monitors attacks on health care in Ukraine, and based on its data, in the Ukraine chapter (in English and Ukrainian) of the 2025 Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) report Care in the Crosshairs identified 613 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Ukraine in 2025. 87 health workers were killed, 140 were injured, and health facilities were damaged or destroyed on at least 382 occasions. Emergency medical services (EMS) were attacked on at least 110 occasions
Health worker killings persisted, with military medics frequently among the casualties, while the number of injuries rose, particularly among emergency responders to Russian missile, drone, and artillery attacks, including in “double taps” strikes. Damage to or the destruction of health facilities increased by over 10% in 2025. Over 95% of attacks on health care were linked to Russian forces. Their use of explosives-armed drones continued to impact health care in 2025, accounting for nearly 50% of all incidents attributed to Russian forces, surging from 127 in 2024 to 296 in 2025. Particularly high numbers of incidents occurred between June and September, coinciding with multiple Russian offensives across Ukraine.
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.
Attacks on Health Care
Since 24 February 2022
December 2023
Attacks on Health Care in Ukraine
Атаки на охорону здоров'я в Україні
707 Attacks on Health in Ukraine
February 2023
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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.
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.
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.
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?
