Dear Friend, 

Friend, it has been more than two years since full-scale war erupted across Ukraine. Hundreds and thousands have been killed or injured. More than 10 million people have been displaced, either inside Ukraine or as refugees abroad.  

Since the beginning of the hostilities, Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been working to provide medical and humanitarian assistance in various parts of the country, going wherever people’s needs have been greatest and where we can have the most impact.

Friend, support from our community of donors gives MSF the flexibility to quickly scale up, scale down and adapt our response as emergencies evolve in Ukraine and more than 70 other countries – regardless of what’s happening in the news cycle.

Right now, MSF teams are primarily focused on providing and supporting medical care in areas that have been heavily affected by conflict, predominantly in the east and south of the Ukraine. At the same time, we have also adapted, reduced and halted some activities, particularly in more stable areas of the country.

“The work that MSF is doing here is important,” says Dr. Khassan El-Kafarna, MSF surgeon working at the MSF-supported hospital in Kostiantynivka, eastern Ukraine (pictured above).

“You can see it in the hospital [in Kostiantynivka], in terms of the improvements in medical care and the additional support we provide. But for me, the most inspiring aspect is the difference we make to individual people. Patients come to us, we treat them, and many are able to walk away healthy and on the way to recovery.”