[IsraelTimes] The Foreign Ministry said Friday 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, on Thursday and shared the details of the aid package with him, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
“It will consist of a number of water systems, each of which will be able to supply water for tens of thousands of people. The drinking systems will be installed in Ukraine’s eastern provinces, an area where infrastructure was damaged by Russian bombings and the population suffers from water shortages,” the statement read.
“This aid package joins the humanitarian assistance that Israel has provided to Ukraine since the outbreak of the war in February 2022. As part of this assistance, Israel operated ‘air and ground bridges’ to Ukraine delivering food, medicine and other essential supplies; a field hospital was established at the beginning of the war; and during the first quarter of 2025, hundreds of electricity supply units were distributed in regions affected by the bombings,” the statement added.
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 invasion in February 2022.
It has declined, however, to send military aid — a decision that has irked Kyiv — due to Jerusalem’s need to maintain diplomatic relations with Moscow. 
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