Between Friday and early Monday, Ukrainian authorities reported that over a dozen civilians were killed and more than 70 others injured, including two children. Basic service disruptions occurred in over 270 towns and villages.
The attacks happened amid harsh winter conditions in Ukraine and rising humanitarian needs as recent assaults also disrupted services and caused several fatalities.
The region of Odesa is particularly affected, experiencing near-daily attacks, according to OCHA. On Friday, an overnight attack on port infrastructure killed eight civilians and injured 27 others. Repeated strikes also knocked out power, affecting tens of thousands of people.
Additionally, Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv saw their energy infrastructure hit, impacting hundreds of thousands of people. A health facility and a school were damaged. Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia also suffered casualties.
Ukrainian authorities informed OCHA that a warehouse storing humanitarian aid was damaged in the Mykolaiv region.
In the Sumy region, about 40 people were evacuated to safer areas over the last three days, OCHA said. Meanwhile, in the Donetsk region, nearly 330 civilians, including 50 children, were evacuated.
Overall, since June, nearly 150,000 people have been evacuated from front-line areas, including more than 16,500 children and over 5,000 people with limited mobility.
Humanitarian workers have reached more than 700,000 people near the front line with aid this year. However, funding gaps leave more than one million people without safe water and limit access to protection and gender-based violence services.
This year’s $2.6 billion appeal for Ukraine is only half funded, at nearly $1.4 billion.
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