Israel approves new humanitarian aid package for Ukraine, aimed at increasing access to clean water

4 July 2025, 11:48 am 1 Edit

Local residents collect clean drinking water from a water station in the city of Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on October 29, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Genya Savilov/AFP)

The Foreign Ministry announces that it has approved a new humanitarian aid package for Ukraine, intended to provide clean water to areas that no longer have functioning water infrastructure as a result of more than three years of Russian bombardment.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar spoke with the Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel, Yevgen Korniychuk, yesterday and shared the details of the aid package with him, the Foreign Ministry says.

Included in the package are several water systems, each one with the capacity to provide clean drinking water to tens of thousands of people, the ministry says.

They will be installed across eastern Ukraine, where Russian shelling has left much of the water infrastructure heavily damaged and non-functioning.

In 2024, Global WASH Cluster, a UNICEF-led water sanitation monitoring network, estimated that some 9.6 million people in Ukraine, or roughly a quarter of the population, are without adequate water and sanitation services.

Israel has periodically provided humanitarian aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its war there in February 2022.

It has declined, however, to send military aid — a decision that has irked Kyiv — due to the need to maintain relations with Moscow.