Doctors Without Borders says attacks damaged Ukraine healthcare facilities between 2022 and 2025

Doctors Without Borders condemned Russia's attacks on healthcare in Ukraine on Monday, stating that the incidents form a consistent pattern rather than isolated events. The organization documented more than 20 attacks on facilities associated with the medical charity between April 2022 and December 2025.

Euronews reported that MSF described the strikes as appearing to constitute a deliberate strategy to destroy the healthcare system.

The World Health Organisation recorded 2,815 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine between the February 2022 full-scale invasion and the end of 2025. The vast majority involved violence with heavy weapons, and 2,319 of the attacks impacted facilities, resulting in 224 deaths and 902 injuries.

Ukraine's health ministry reported that Russian forces damaged or destroyed more than 2,500 medical facilities during the same period, with 327 completely destroyed.

Robin Meldrum, MSF's country coordinator in Ukraine, stated that the attacks are too consistent, too frequent and too precise to be accidental. He added that repeated strikes on hospitals, precision drone targeting of ambulances, and killings of medical workers in clearly marked vehicles indicate intent.

MSF noted that attacks have created a crisis in access to non-emergency and chronic care treatment.

The number of doctors at an MSF-supported hospital in Kherson fell by 66 percent since 2022, while teams in eastern and southern Ukraine operate under constant threat of FPV drone attacks. On 29 September last year, a nurse and a director from an MSF-supported health centre in Lyman were struck by a Russian FPV drone while delivering medicines in a clearly marked vehicle.