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Highlights
- The war in Ukraine is entering its fifth devastating year, marked by an escalation of unrelenting attacks since April 2025 and the systematic destruction of critical infrastructure. The war continues to endanger children’s lives, disrupt essential services and take a severe toll on mental health. In 2026, an estimated 10.8 million people inside Ukraine, including 2.2 million children and 3.8 million internally displaced people, as well as nearly 546,000 Ukrainian refugees in Belarus, Bulgaria, Republic of Moldova, Poland and Romania require humanitarian assistance.
- Children and families in Ukraine and in neighbouring refugee-hosting countries face interconnected crises. Conflict-related destruction and displacement have eroded access to basic services and heightened protection and gender-based violence risks inside Ukraine. Beyond its borders, protracted displacement, social exclusion, psychosocial distress and economic insecurity continue to affect refugee children and their families and strain national systems.
- UNICEF will pursue life-saving, multisectoral assistance to ensure the protection of children and the rehabilitation of essential services in Ukraine’s most affected regions in the north, east and south, while strengthening national systems in host countries to maintain refugee inclusion in this protracted conflict and expand access to education, protection and mental health support.
- In 2026, UNICEF requires US$387.9 million ($350 million for the response inside Ukraine and $37.9 million for the refugee response) to ensure protection, sustain services, strengthen systems and maintain readiness to meet new or escalating needs.
KEY PLANNED TARGETS
160,400 children and caregivers accessing primary health care
484,019 children/caregivers accessing communitybased mental health and psychosocial support
197,166 children accessing formal or non-formal education, including early learning
4.3 million people accessing a sufficient quantity and quality of water