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Source: United Nations – United Nations –
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December 22, 2025 Peace and security
Fighting over the weekend has led to an increase in civilian casualties in Ukraine, as well as extensive damage to the country's critical infrastructure, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Monday.
From Friday until early Monday morning, according to Ukrainian authorities, more than ten civilians were killed and over 70 others were injured, including two children. Disruptions to basic services were reported in more than 270 settlements across Ukraine.
The attacks are taking place against a backdrop of harsh winter conditions. Recent shelling has already led to power and heating outages.
Almost daily attacks
The Odessa region, which is subject to near-daily attacks, has been particularly hard hit. On Friday, an overnight attack on port infrastructure claimed the lives of eight civilians and injured 27 others. Tens of thousands of people remain without power.
Hundreds of thousands of people were also affected by damage to energy infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv regions.
Ukrainian authorities reported that a humanitarian aid warehouse in the Mykolaiv region was damaged in the attack. A medical facility and a school were also hit.
Funding shortfall
In the Sumy region, approximately 40 people have been evacuated to safer areas over the past three days, the OCHA reported. Meanwhile, in the Donetsk region, approximately 330 civilians, including 50 children, have been evacuated.
Since June, nearly 150,000 people have been evacuated from frontline areas, including more than 16,500 children and more than 5,000 people with limited mobility.
Humanitarian workers were able to provide assistance to 700,000 people in areas near the front lines this year. However, due to funding shortages, more than a million people remain without clean water, and access to protection services and assistance for survivors of gender-based violence is limited.
This year, the $2.6 billion humanitarian plan for Ukraine received only about half the funding – less than $1.4 billion.
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