In Support of Nurses and Medical Care Providers in Ukraine: On the Front Lines
Deliberate Attacks on Nurses and Medical Providers and Facilities
The following videos, articles and documents show the horrendous situations that nurses and other medical providers in Ukraine are experiencing as this unprovoked war continues with no end in sight. In any war or armed conflict, there is great suffering for non-combatants and combatants fighting this war. Nurses and medical care providers labor to repair the massive traumatic human damage that results from the use of bombs, unmanned drones, and automatic weapons.
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Ukraine – Nurses/ Healthcare Personnel in the War Zones
Russian strikes on Ukraine medical warehouses December 12, 2025
Ukrainian nurses call for continued solidarity in the face of unrelenting attacks, November 18, 2025
Exclusive Stringer Dispatch: Ukrainian nursing home worker recalls hard time evacuating, October 2025
Kharkiv hospital, October 2025
Ukraine Combat hospital, Donbas frontline, Daily Mail World July 17, 2025
Ukraine nurses speak out about their situation and struggles, May 12, 2025
Meet Yullia, a Ukrainian nurse, November 22, 2024
WHO records 1,940 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine since the start of full-scale war, August 19, 2024
Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine, July 9, 2024
Hospital attacked on a children’s hospital July 9, 2024
Insecurity Insight, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (2024). Ukraine violence against health care in conflict, 2024.
Reynold, N. (2022, July 8). The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine Nurses around the world can and should unite to help.
Untold stories Ukraine hospital doctors and nurses, July 2, 2024
Attack on a hospital in Dnipro, date unknown
Ukrainian nurses make home visits, August 10, 2023
“The most important is to stay human”: the story of a Ukrainian nurse from Kharkiv caring for patients amid the war, May 12, 2023
‘I felt like I was flying in the air’: Newly-wed Ukrainian nurse on landmine attack, May 2022
Nurses care for newborn babies in a makeshift bomb shelter from a neonatal intensive care unit at a children’s hospital in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine. Dr Denis Surkov, chief of the neonatal unit at Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Children’s Clinic hospital, said in a statement: ‘This is our reality.’