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New reporting paints a grim picture of the conflict in Ukraine: temperatures are dropping, civilian casualties are rising, and funding for humanitarian organizations on the frontlines is dwindling right as winter takes hold.

“People can survive without electricity for a time, but not without heat,” a local doctor said. As temperatures plummet and displacement rises in Ukraine, newborns, the elderly, and pregnant women are severely at risk.

UNFPA is there distributing Winter Dignity Kits, providing psychosocial support, and delivering lifesaving reproductive care and medicines, but funding shortfalls threaten the continuation of these services. Will you make a matched donation right now so we can keep supporting women and girls in Ukraine and beyond? Your gift will make double the difference. [[link removed]?]

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Ukraine doctors fight for every newborn’s first breath with lifesaving medicine.

For pregnant women in Ukraine, giving birth under air raid sirens is their nightmarish reality.

Since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, more than 2,000 attacks on medical facilities have been recorded. At least 81 attacks have disrupted the work of health centers providing care to mothers and newborns, and eight medical workers have been killed as a result.

Constant stress caused by war, attacks on hospitals, and interruptions in prenatal care have created a healthcare crisis, and the percentage of mothers dying from pregnancy and childbirth complications in Ukraine has skyrocketed by 37%.

“These are not abstract statistics,” Florence Bauer , a UNFPA Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, told us.

“They are people and families living under unbearable stress and reflect a health system under attack. Safe childbirth must be protected even in war, and international humanitarian law is clear: health facilities, health workers and humanitarian access must never be targeted.”

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In frontline Kharkiv, protected maternity wards are helping women give birth safely, even as war continues just kilometers away.

You can ensure health facilities have mobile incubators, sterile equipment for newborns, and lifesaving medicines to help premature babies breathe. To ensure women can give birth safely even during bombardment, you can support the construction and refurbishment of underground maternity wards.

No woman should have to give birth under fire. No newborn should take their first breath in conflict. Please be there for women, girls, mothers, and their babies by making a matched donation today. Your gift will double the lifesaving care to the most vulnerable living through conflict. [[link removed]?]

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