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December 30, 2025 Peace and security
Ukraine's healthcare system continues to suffer as a result of the fighting. Last weekend, a strike damaged a medical facility in Izmail, Odessa Oblast. Overall, Ukraine accounted for nearly 43 percent of all attacks on healthcare facilities worldwide in 2025.
Between January 1 and December 29, 2025, the country experienced 561 of the 1,320 attacks on healthcare facilities, staff, patients, warehouses, transport, and supplies recorded in the World Health Organization (WHO) global monitoring system. These attacks resulted in the deaths of 19 people and the injury of another 201. The attacks undermine access to healthcare, particularly in frontline areas, where many of the remaining residents are elderly and have underlying health conditions.
Interruptions in heating and electricity supply
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), between December 26 and 29, attacks on Ukrainian territory continued to cause civilian casualties and extensive damage to infrastructure. As a result, electricity, heating, and water supplies were disrupted in several areas of the country amid falling temperatures.
According to Ukrainian authorities, nearly 100 civilian deaths and injuries were recorded across the country during this period. The most serious consequences of the attacks were observed in Kyiv. As a result, large-scale attack on December 27 Several people were killed and dozens were injured. Power facilities, residential buildings, a kindergarten, a university dormitory, cars, stores, and other civilian facilities were damaged. According to the local energy company, more than one million households in Kyiv and the surrounding area were left without power. About a third of the city's population—approximately three million people—were left without heat, and water supply outages were also reported.
Although power was subsequently restored to nearly 750,000 households in Kyiv and around 350,000 in the Kyiv region, emergency and scheduled outages continue, and heating and electricity supplies remain partially disrupted.
Similar consequences of the attacks were recorded in other regions of Ukraine. Civilians in the Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Sumy regions suffered as a result of the wave of strikes. Energy infrastructure facilities, educational institutions, and local businesses were damaged.
Humanitarian aid
These incidents reflect the ongoing pattern of attacks on energy facilities in densely populated urban areas, disrupting critical services, including electricity and heating. Restoration efforts are hampered by the threat of further attacks.
Meanwhile, humanitarian workers mobilized emergency assistance in the affected areas, particularly in Kharkiv, Kyiv, and the Kyiv region. This support included first aid and psychosocial services, distribution of hot meals, repair materials, and other essential items to affected families. Special points were set up where people could stay warm, receive food, charge mobile phones, and receive other assistance. Legal support was also provided to restore lost documents and file compensation claims for damaged or destroyed property.
Additionally, on December 27, humanitarian agencies delivered 15 emergency heaters to the Kherson region. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) provided a diesel generator to a children's medical facility in the Odesa region.
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