According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), hostilities in Ukraine this weekend resulted in additional civilian casualties and widespread damage to critical infrastructure. Between Friday and early Monday morning, Ukrainian authorities reported that more than a dozen civilians were killed and over 70 others were injured, including two children. Disruptions to basic services were reported in over 270 towns and villages.
The Odesa region is particularly impacted and experiences nearly daily attacks. On Friday, an overnight attack targeting port infrastructure killed eight civilians and injured 27 others. Repeated strikes also caused a power outage affecting tens of thousands of people.
OCHA reported on Monday that the regions of Dnipro, Kharkiv, and Mykolaiv also sustained attacks on their energy infrastructure, affecting hundreds of thousands of people. The attacks there damaged a health facility and a school, while Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia also reported casualties. Officials report that a warehouse storing humanitarian aid was damaged in the Mykolaiv region following an attack on Saturday.
Meanwhile, evacuations from front-line and border areas continue. Over the last three days, dozens of people were evacuated from the Sumy region to safer areas. In the Donetsk region, hundreds of civilians, including 50 children, have been evacuated. Since June, nearly 150,000 people have been evacuated from front-line areas, including over 16,500 children and more than 5,000 persons with limited mobility.
According to OCHA, aid agencies provided assistance to over 700,000 individuals near the front lines during the first 11 months of 2025. However, funding gaps persist, leaving over one million people without access to safe water and limiting their access to protection and services for gender-based violence in these high-risk areas.
This year's US$2.6 billion humanitarian appeal for Ukraine has received only $1.4 billion in funding, as of today.
Despite receiving significantly less funding than requested, humanitarian organizations reached 4.4 million people out of 6 million targeted across Ukraine between January and October 2025. This included over 700,000 internally displaced people (IDPs).
The UN humanitarian office warns that funding shortages continue to limit the response and threaten the continuity of essential services into early 2026.
Without adequate funding, for example, prolonged power outages in healthcare facilities will deny patients access to lifesaving medical services. And the most vulnerable people, including the elderly, evacuees, and IDPs, face an increased risk of exposure to negative winter conditions.