Ukraine: Humanitarian Response and Funding Snapshot (January - April 2025) [EN/UK]

SITUATION UPDATE

Air strikes and shelling continue, claiming lives, injuring people and causing damage to homes, schools, hospitals and other vital civilian infrastructure. Civilians – especially those in front-line areas – remain at serious risk as humanitarian needs persist. Sustained attacks have left millions in urgent need of life-saving assistance, including medicine, food, shelter, repair materials and other essential services. Residents of front-line areas remain among the most vulnerable, mostly in Donetska, Kharkivska, Khersonska, Sumska and Zaporizka oblasts. Government-led evacuations, supported by humanitarian partners, continued in parts of Donetska and Khersonska oblasts and border areas of Sumska Oblast. In 2025, aid organizations assisted 4,700 evacuees from Dnipropetrovska, Donetska, Kharkivska and Sumska oblasts, which is part of regular assistance provided to 88,000 displaced people in front-line regions. Despite the challenging security environment, aid workers continue to deliver critical assistance to the hardest-hit areas. Local partners continue to play an essential role in the response – of the 440 organizations, around 70 per cent are national NGOs.

Notwithstanding the needs, owing to a sharp and sudden contraction in humanitarian funding, the humanitarian community reprioritized the 2025 HNRP. Supported by the humanitarian reset’s call to further prioritize urgent life-saving actions, the reprioritized plan aims to reach 4.8 million people (down from 6 million) with a reduced financial requirement of US$1.75 billion (down from $2.63 billion). This reprioritization is organized across four key priorities: supporting the most vulnerable who remain close to the front line, evacuations, emergency response after strikes and humanitarian contribution to the most vulnerable among the internally displaced people, including those in collective centres.

As of April, 3.1 million people received at least one type of assistance in front-line and neighbouring oblasts. Water, sanitation and hygiene services – including clean water access and waste-water rehabilitation – have reached nearly 2.4 million people. Humanitarian partners assisted 1.7 million people with food and livelihood support, ranging from emergency food distributions to agricultural inputs. Emergency health services and medications were provided to 730,000 people. Protection services, including legal aid and psychosocial support, have supported 460,000 people. Shelter and non-food supplies have helped 400,000 people. Child protection assistance has reached 300,000 children and caregivers. Emergency education support, including learning kits, has benefited 180,000 schoolchildren and teachers. Multipurpose cash assistance, including rapid cash support, has been provided to 150,000 people across Ukraine.

Aid organizations continue critical life-saving programmes in Ukraine, particularly for the most vulnerable people in front-line cities, towns and villages through the humanitarian convoys. In high-risk areas of Donetska, Kharkivska, Khersonska and Zaporizka oblasts, 20 inter-agency convoys delivered vital aid, including food, medical supplies, hygiene kits and emergency shelter materials, reaching nearly 30,000 people – 6,400 people in April alone – complementing broader humanitarian efforts. By the end of April, just slightly over 20 per cent of the $2.63 billion of funds requested by the 2025 HNRP had been received by the humanitarian community.