Humanitarian Snapshot – January 2021 As of 31 January 2021

Active hostilities have been gradually rising in recent months, with 2021 HRP: REQUIREMENTS AND FUNDING* 495 incidents reported in January1, the second highest monthly level recorded CIVILIAN CASUALTIES

since the beginning of the ceasefire in late July 2020. On 25 January, a REQUIREMENTS (US$) FUNDED (US$) UNMET (US$) nationwide COVID-19 lockdown was replaced with more selective and specific casualties 168.0M 1.5M 166.5M restrictions to curb the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, the Central Election 2 reported 0 2 1% Commission of Ukraine confirmed that the local elections scheduled for in January deaths injuries FUNDED March 2021 would once again not be held in 18 frontline communities in 40.3M additional funding pledged/provided to projects outside 2021 HRP Government-controlled areas (GCA) of Donetska and Luhanska oblasts due to security considerations. INCIDENTS AGAINST INFRASTRUCTURE AND SERVICES Funding by Cluster Funding requirements Funding status OPERATIONAL UPDATES (% and million US$) (million US$) (million US$) incidents against security incidents Landmine and explosive remnants of war (ERW) were the main cause of 2 water facilities 495 in January* Education 0% 5.6 0 civilian casualties in 2020, accounting for 73 of 144 casualties. At over in January Source: INSO 50 per cent, this represents the highest proportion of civilian casualties Food Security Source: WASH Cluster * In Donetska and Luhanska oblasts 4% from mines and ERW since 2016. An estimated 2 million people in and Livelihoods 21.0 0.8 Donetska and Luhanska oblasts live in areas heavily contaminated by mines, while Ukraine possesses over 3 million antipersonnel mines Health 0% 28.7 0 remaining to be destroyed, according to Landmine Monitor 2020. However, incidents against damaged private the country does not have a centralized national landmine and unexploded 0 education facilities 8 houses in January Protection 0% 50.1 0.1 ordnance casualty database with information on mine victims. Apart from in January emergency medical assistance, there is no comprehensive mine victim Source: Education Cluster Source: Shelter Cluster support provided. In January 2021, two civilian casualties were reported – Shelter/NFI 0% 23.1 0 one of which was due to ERW mishandling, according to OHCHR. NUMBER AND LOCATION OF SECURITY INCIDENTS WASH 2% 27.0 0.6 Official COVID-19 transmission rates continue to slow, with 164,400 (JANUARY 2021) confirmed cases nationwide reported in January – a reduction of almost Common Services Borova 0% 7.2 0 50 per cent from December 2020 (322,400 cases). This drop corresponds BELARUS and Support

RUSS IAN FEDERATION with a reduction in the average number of PCR tests conducted from over POLAND Izium Multipurpose 40,000 tests per day in November to 22,000 in January. In December, the 0% SLOVAKIA Cash 5.2 0

Government of Ukraine endorsed the use of COVID-19 antigen tests, but HU NGA RY

MOLDOVA these figures are not included in current reporting. In GCA of Luhanska and Lyman Sea of Azov Cluster ROMANI A 0 Barvinkove not specified Donetska oblasts, the number of reported cases slowed and the bed Black sea occupancy rate dropped to 13-15 per cent in January from 20-30 per cent SER BIA BULGARIABlyzniuky Sloviansk TOTAL 168.0 1.5 reported previously. Designated COVID-19 hospitals in GCA have one of the Oleksandrivka lowest levels of oxygen-supplied beds in the country at 16.1 per cent and Stanytsia Luhanska 2 Bakhmut 18.5 per cent, respectively, compared to 28 per cent nationwide . In Kostiantynivka 2020 POOLED FUND ALLOCATIONS Petropavlivka Dobropillia non-Government controlled areas (NGCA) of Luhanska and Donetska oblasts, the first batch of COVID-19 Sputnik V vaccines from the Russian Between January and December0 20 2020,40 the60 Ukraine80 100 Humanitarian Fund (UHF) Pokrovsk Sorokyne Federation were reported to be delivered at the end of January. Mezhova allocated and committed US$ 10.8 million for 30 projects targeting over 565,000 people in need in eastern Ukraine, through four allocations. 63 per cent Gaps in governance and services are reported in some of the 18 Yasynuvata Shakhtarsk Dovzhansk of people targeted live in NGCA and 62 per cent are women and girls. amalgamated territorial communities, or hromadas, in Donetska and Donetsk Luhanska oblasts (GCA) near the “contact line” where local elections did Marinka As part of 2020 allocations, close to $4 million was allocated specifically for not occur in 2020. Until Heads of the Civil-Military Administrations are Velyka Novosilka Amvrosiivka COVID-19 response to provide livelihood support to elderly and other vulnerable appointed in these hromadas, they are expected to have difficulty Starobesheve RUSSIAN FEDERATION people through contact-tracing in GCA and through medical response in NGCA. accessing their 2021 budgets. Some frontline settlements have reported Volnovakha More than $3 million was allocated and committed to support the humanitarian being unable to cover municipal expenses to pay for meals in educational response during winter in NGCA and $2.8 million to pilot projects in GCA Ƅ'SRXEGX0MRIƅEWSJ%YKYWX facilities, disburse salaries to the personnel of government institutions, or aiming at increasing the sustainability of the humanitarian response, through a Boikivske 2YQFIVSJWIGYVMX]MRGMHIRXW negotiate/renew contracts to service providers. Prolonged gaps in Rozivka Bilmak close collaboration among humanitarian actors, local authorities and essential service delivery in these communities risk increasing existing development actors. humanitarian needs among the conflict-affected population. Nikolske

1. International NGO Safety Organization (INSO) report. Novoazovsk The boundaries, names and the designations used on this map do not imply * According to FTS as of 31 January 2021. Some donations are yet to be recorded, and donors and partners are invited Manhush QHƒEKCNGPFQTUGOGPVQTCEEGRVCPEGb[VJG7PKVGF0CVKQPU5GEWTKV[KPEKFGPV 2. World Health Organization’s audit of oxygen therapy capacities in all Ukrainian hospitals designated for in-patient treatment of Sea of Azov data is provided by INSO. to register donations. patients with COVID-19.

Creation date: 12 February 2021 Sources: OCHA, OHCHR, 2021 HRP, INSO, FTS, Clusters Feedback: [email protected] www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.int