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Ukraine: Quarterly protection monitoring reports
These reports summarize the findings of DRC protection monitoring conducted in Ukraine. The reports seek to identify trends in protection risks and rights violations, challenges and barriers in access to services (particularly for the most vulnerable) across surveyed oblasts, in order to inform the ongoing and planned humanitarian response and support evidence-based advocacy on behalf of persons of concern.
Executive summary
Protection risks remain severe and increasingly interconnected in frontline and border oblasts: Intensified shelling, drone attacks, power outages, and explosive ordnance contamination continue to drive displacement, restrict freedom of movement, and expose civilians to ongoing harm. Frontline and near-frontline areas in Donetsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts remain the most affected.
Power outages and attacks on critical infrastructure are exacerbating protection risks across sectors: Repeated attacks on energy infrastructure have disrupted heating, water supply, communications, healthcare, and livelihoods. Power outages are also increasing risks related to GBV, social isolation, limited access to information, and unsafe coping strategies, particularly among women, older persons, persons with disabilities, and low-income households.
Housing, land and property (HLP) insecurity remains a major structural driver of vulnerability: Damage to housing, lack of documentation, barriers to compensation, insecure tenure, and high rental costs are contributing to prolonged displacement, unsafe living conditions, overcrowding in collective sites, and social tensions between IDPs and host communities. Many households continue to live in damaged homes or rely on informal housing arrangements due to a lack of alternatives.
Barriers to documentation, legal remedies, and access to services continue to exclude vulnerable groups: Many affected people face difficulties obtaining civil and HLP documentation due to administrative complexity, cost, insecurity, destroyed archives, and limited access to services. These barriers restrict access to compensation, pensions, social benefits, legal remedies, and humanitarian assistance, particularly for IDPs, older persons, and low-income households.
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