One year ago, on February 24, 2022, Russia launched a major military operation in Ukraine that rapidly escalated into a full-scale war across most of the country. This escalation of violence followed years of simmering conflict in eastern Ukraine. Today, millions of people have been displaced by the fighting or forced to live without electricity, food, clean water, or access to essential health care.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been responding to the needs of people affected by conflict in Ukraine since 2014, and dramatically ramped up our services over the past year working alongside Ukrainian health providers and civil society organizations. Ukraine’s health system has been pushed to the brink as it struggles to address the massive needs. This photo story looks inside MSF’s lifesaving medical humanitarian work across Ukraine and the evolving challenges we face as the war continues. Read more.