Navigating humanitarian dilemmas in the Ukraine crisis

The Ukraine crisis presents heightened tensions and dilemmas for humanitarian actors – some familiar, others new. These are informed by a fraught geopolitical context and a rapid series of developments. What are these dilemmas, and what are the five determinants that are likely to play a key role in raising a number of critical questions?

This paper presents an introduction to these questions, which all humanitarian actors engaged in the Ukraine crisis will face and have already come up against.