Ukraine: Deadly Russian attacks severely damage aid warehouses
20 July 2026
Peace and SecurityRussian attacks and drone strikes killed at least two children and injured dozens more across Ukraine over recent days while severely damaging three critical aid warehouses, UN agencies reported on Monday.
The UN aid coordination agency, OCHA, said attacks over the past days killed and injured dozens in Kyiv, at a recreation site in the Odesa region and in Zaporizhzhia, where the media also reported that a drone strike destroyed a Red Cross vehicle.“The increasing toll of these attacks across the country is devastating,” Matthias Schmale, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Ukraine said.Deadly weekend strikesUN agencies roundly condemned the killings, calling for an end to hostilities.As a result of deadly weekend attacks, humanitarian warehouses sustained damage, including the World Food Programme (WFP) in Dnipro and the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Kyiv region, the UN spokesperson told reporters on Monday.The WFP warehouse was hit four times by drone strikes, the UN agency said, marking the seventh attack on its clearly marked assets in Ukraine in the past three months, with more than 90 such strikes recorded in the last two years.At the time of Sunday’s attack on a UNICEF-contracted warehouse in Bilohorodka, the facility contained more than 106,000 items with an estimated value of $3.9 million, including generators, drinking water, hygiene kits and water storage tanks that are critical for the agency’s response in Ukraine, according to the agency, noting that an assessment of the full impact is ongoing.
