Russia-Ukraine War
Recent Developments
0121–27 February 2026: ACLED reported Russian strikes killed at least 43 civilians in multiple Ukrainian regions.
0224–25 February 2026: ISW reported Russia launched 115 drones against Ukraine, showing continued intensity of aerial attacks.
03OHCHR continues to verify civilian casualties but states its confirmed totals likely undercount the true scale because many incidents cannot be confirmed immediately or occur in occupied areas.
Interventions
- UN-led civilian casualty monitoring and protection efforts through OHCHR verification and reporting.
- Humanitarian assistance, displacement support, and reconstruction planning by international institutions and aid actors responding to damaged housing, energy, and transport systems.
What Works
- Independent civilian casualty verification improves situational awareness and helps target protection and accountability efforts, especially where access is limited.
- Emergency repair and protection of energy, transport, and housing infrastructure reduce secondary civilian harm and help preserve access to essential services in affected regions.
How to Help
- Donate to reputable humanitarian organizations providing food, shelter, medical aid, and displacement support for Ukrainians.
- Volunteer with local or international NGOs supporting refugees, displaced people, or humanitarian logistics.
- Advocate for sustained civilian-protection, humanitarian-access, and reconstruction support through elected representatives.
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Organizations Helping(23)
UNHCR is mitigating flood risks in Rohingya refugee camps by pre-positioning humanitarian supplies such as tarpaulins, rope to secure shelters, sleeping mats, water purification tablets, and jerrycans ahead of the monsoon season to protect displaced populations from floods and landslides.
Catholic Relief Services supports war-affected people in Ukraine by providing safe shelter, hot meals, hygiene supplies, fuel for warmth, transport to safer areas, and counseling support for civilians coping with displacement and conflict.
UNICEF’s strategy is to combine direct service delivery with system strengthening, using child-focused interventions that can work at scale and in crises. Its public materials emphasize low-cost, high-impact, and sustainable solutions across health, nutrition, education, WASH, and protection, rather than isolated one-off projects.[6][2] A distinctive part of UNICEF’s approach is that it works through governments and local, national, and global partners to build or improve public systems while also reaching children immediately in emergencies. In education, for example, UNICEF both creates temporary learning centers for displaced children and helps strengthen formal education systems; in health, it pairs vaccine procurement and immunization support with disease prevention and primary care.[8][2] UNICEF also uses an equity-centered model, prioritizing children who are out of school, living in conflict zones, affected by poverty, or excluded because of gender or disability. Its programs are designed to protect children’s rights while delivering measurable outcomes such as improved survival, learning, sanitation, and protection in both stable and emergency settings.[8][6]
Blue/Yellow coordinates large-scale convoys delivering food, hygiene kits, medical aid, and generators to war-affected regions; they support energy infrastructure by providing power banks and heaters to mitigate winter outages, and assist deminers and first responders in Donetsk, Luhansk, and other frontline zones.
