ВООЗ lost another warehouse with medical supplies in Ukraine
A warehouse of the World Health Organization in Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast, was damaged as a result of a Russian attack on the night of September 22. This is the fourth WHO warehouse in Ukraine damaged in the last three months.
The representation of WHO in Ukraine reported this.
At the time of the attack, there were no organization staff at the facility. According to a preliminary assessment, the controlled-temperature storage room, where medical supplies were kept, was damaged. The full extent of the damage has yet to be determined.
The WHO noted that the incident in Chornomorsk has become the 21st documented attack in 2026 on facilities storing medical goods.
The series of strikes on the organization's warehouses has sharply increased during the summer. In early September, the WHO reported that in the previous three months, three of its humanitarian warehouses in various regions of Ukraine were damaged or destroyed. One of them in Dnipro was completely destroyed after several strikes, along with part of the medical stocks intended for front-line and hard-to-reach areas.
Specifically, the warehouse in Dnipro had about 300 pallets of humanitarian supplies worth approximately $500 thousand before the attacks. Before the final destruction of the building, staff managed to move 130 pallets. The WHO estimated that the medical supplies and equipment lost there were intended to help about 225 thousand people in front-line and hard-to-reach areas.
Another WHO warehouse in Kyiv Oblast was damaged during a mass attack in July, and on September 3, an airstrike destroyed one of the organization's main warehouses in the same region. After these incidents, the WHO began more actively moving stocks between different locations and looking for alternative storage sites.
The organization emphasizes that the consequences of such attacks are not limited to the loss of buildings and goods. The transfer of stocks consumes resources and can complicate the delivery of medicines and medical equipment to hospitals and communities that need them the most.
According to the WHO, in 2026 alone, the organization has supplied equipment and medical materials to more than 300 Ukrainian healthcare facilities. The assistance, by its estimate, has reached about 3 million people.
Overall, attacks on the healthcare system remain one of the systemic problems of the war. Back in May, the WHO reported that since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, it verified more than 3,000 attacks on healthcare in Ukraine, including strikes on hospitals, outpatient clinics, medical transport, and warehouses.
After the attack in Chornomorsk, the WHO announced that it will continue to change its logistical schemes to reduce the risk of losing stocks and ensure uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian medical assistance.
Based on materials from: WHO in Ukraine, World Health Organization
