Ukrainians are under severe pressure this winter after weeks spent in icy, dark homes. Daily life often means 15–20 hours of power outages every day and temperatures dropping to minus 20 degrees Celsius at night. Many are struggling to make everyday life work – a direct consequence of what is described as escalating Russian terror attacks against the civilian population.

A strong team of volunteer Danish engineers has just returned from a mission in the Mykolaiv region near the front line in southeastern Ukraine. Engineers Without Borders continues its technical humanitarian work in Ukraine:

“It shows that Danish engineers are not turning their backs on Ukrainians now, when the situation is at its most critical,”
says Jakob Torrild Hansen, Head of the Danish Embassy Office in Mykolaiv, Embassy of Denmark in Ukraine.

Air raid alarms sound day and night. Using drones, missiles, and bombs, the Russian military is deliberately destroying – more than ever before in the nearly four-year-long war – the supply of heating, water, and electricity to Ukrainian civilians.

The deployed Danish engineers work voluntarily and without pay to support civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, thereby supporting everyday life behind the front lines:

“Solidarity with the unjust victims of war is not something you just talk about. Solidarity is taking action to help,”
emphasizes Secretary General Peter Horne Zartsdahl.

In 2025 alone, 90 volunteer Danish engineers were deployed on 15 missions across 53 different locations in Ukraine that needed support. 2026 has begun, the first mission has just been completed – the war and the destruction continue, and so does our volunteer humanitarian work.

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