How Drone Warfare and Widespread Attacks Are Devastating Healthcare in Ukraine
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) released “No Safe Place to Heal,” a report documenting relentless attacks on healthcare and medical personnel in Ukraine, which appear to constitute a deliberate strategy to destroy the medical system and collectively punish the population - rather than being an incidental product of Russia's invasion.
Between April 2022 and December 2025, Doctors Without Borders documented more than 20 attacks on medical facilities associated with its activities. Four hospitals where Doctors Without Borders worked have been completely destroyed. Seven ambulance bases had to be abandoned. Doctors Without Borders has lost access to over 80 villages it supported across six regions with primary healthcare mobile clinics. The World Health Organization documented 2,811 attacks on healthcare from February 2022 to the end of 2025, and Ukraine’s Ministry of Health reports that Russian forces have damaged or destroyed over 2,500 medical facilities in the same period, including 327 that have been completely destroyed.
Strikes on medical infrastructure and the crippling fear of attacks on civilians have created a crisis in access to healthcare for people in need of non-emergency medical treatment or treatment for chronic conditions.
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