The attacks come amid harsh winter conditions in Ukraine and growing humanitarian needs, as last week’s attacks also disrupted services and caused several deaths.
Almost daily attacks
The Odessa region is the most affected and suffers attacks almost daily, according to OCHA. On Friday, an overnight attack on port infrastructure killed eight civilians and injured 27 others. The repeated attacks also knocked out power, affecting tens of thousands of people.
Additionally, Dnipro, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv saw their energy infrastructure affected, with hundreds of thousands of people affected. A health center and a school were also damaged in the attacks. Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia also suffered casualties.
Ukrainian authorities told OCHA that a warehouse storing humanitarian aid was damaged in the Mykolaiv region.
Aid appeal half funded
In the Sumy region, about 40 people were evacuated to safer areas in the past three days, OCHA said. Meanwhile, in the Donetsk region, about 330 civilians, including 50 children, were evacuated.
In total, since June, almost 150,000 people have been evacuated from frontline areas, including more than 16,500 children and more than 5,000 people with limited mobility.
Aid workers have managed to reach more than 700,000 people near the front lines with aid this year. However, funding gaps persist, leaving more than a million people without clean water and limiting access to gender-based violence and protection services.
This year’s appeal of $2.6 billion for Ukraine is only half funded, or almost $1.4 billion.