Ukraine Mission
The main focus for MOAS(UK) in 2025 was the continuation of the vital medical mission in Ukraine. This is now overwhelmingly dedicated to the evacuation of critically injured soldiers from the front line and providing life-saving medical care. Since the start of the full-scale invasion, MOAS has evacuated over 70,000 patients using its fleet of 50 ambulances and 150 Ukrainian doctors, nurses and drivers. 15,000 lives were saved in 2025 alone. A film of MOAS’ work in Ukraine can be viewed on YouTube – “Hope under Fire”.
The Ukraine mission is based around the fleet of emergency response vehicles with different specifications and capacities, including mobile medical team base units, critical care transport vehicles, secure resupply and logistics vehicles and personnel deployment vehicles. The vehicles are equipped with portable medical supplies, stocks of pharmaceuticals and state of the art equipment that allows the teams to provide both basic and advanced life support, advanced clinical interventions, transport and triage, as well as some more expanded critical care medical interventions as and when needed. Each vehicle is manned by two licensed medical personnel and a local driver/cultural mediator. As many patients as possible are triaged, treated and released in the field, but the most critical and high-risk cases are then transported by MOAS teams in critical care transport vehicles to higher echelons of care, away from the front lines, for surgery and further intervention.
The role of MOAS(UK) during this period has been the processing of donations received primarily from the UK in order to support the Ukraine mission. MOAS(UK) is kept up to date with the mission through regular contact with the MOAS Head of the Ukraine mission based in Kiev and with MOAS in Malta.
One significant development in 2025 was the completion of an agreement with the Ukrainian Ministry of Health through which some of MOAS’ activity can be supported directly by the Ministry. Unfortunately, despite this very welcome change, the life-saving mission in Ukraine is facing a funding crisis as donor sources run dry. The operation costs around $1 million per month and unless new sources of funding can be found quickly the mission is under threat of closure. This does not affect the financial viability of the other charitable work or of MOAS(UK) itself.
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