Mondo supported tens of thousands of people in Ukraine this winter

Last winter was the coldest in a decade in Ukraine. Combined with the ongoing war, it pushed the entire country into an emergency situation where, in addition to bombs, people had to fight for livable warmth. With Mondo’s support, warmth reached more than 22,000 people across Ukraine this winter.

Before the winter of 2025/2026, an estimated 1.7 million people in Ukraine needed assistance to survive the winter, according to OCHA. Of these, 77% live in areas along the front line and the northern border. This was compounded by an exceptionally cold winter, with temperatures dropping to –20°C for weeks at a time. An unprecedented humanitarian crisis emerged due to targeted Russian attacks on energy infrastructure over the past four years.

People whose indoor heating depended on central heating systems suffered the most, namely residents of apartment buildings. Power outages would often last more than 16 hours per day.

• Mondo provided necessary heating materials and equipment to 33 collective sites for internally displaced people, creating livable conditions for approximately 2,800 people in the Dnipropetrovsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Donetsk regions. Several buildings were renovated, and all received briquettes, heating pellets, charging stations (including EcoFlow devices), electric convectors, power banks, Bullerjan stoves, and blankets.
• We procured generators for three collective sites for internally displaced people, supplying electricity to more than 400 residents, including 75 children.
• A total of 176 households in the Kramatorsk district of Dnipro region received necessary heating materials, helping to keep 372 people warm in their homes.
• Three crisis centers provided round-the-clock access to warm space, electricity, food and drink, and essential mental health support to an estimated 19,000 people in Kyiv districts where shortages of electricity and heating in apartment buildings were most severe.

Thank you to the private donors, the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ukraine Humanitarian Fund (OCHA-UHF), and Secours Populaire Français.