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Throughout 2025, the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine procured and delivered more than 600,000 units of adaptive clothing to military medical facilities as part of the systemic project “Wounded Service Member’s Kit”.
This was reported by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine on 12 December.
“The initiative, which is part of the National Barrier-Free Strategy, is designed to ensure maximum comfort for wounded and ill service members during treatment and rehabilitation”, — the statement reads.
Among these adaptive clothing items are:
- adaptive tank tops — 100,000 units;
- adaptive shorts — 100,000 units;
- adaptive short-sleeve shirts — 100,000 units;
- adaptive long-sleeve shirts — 100,000 units;
- adaptive trousers — 50,000 units;
- summer socks — 150,000 pairs.
The Ministry of Defence added that these items were primarily delivered to military medical facilities in frontline and border regions: Sumy, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts.
Additionally, within the project, an extra 50,000 personal hygiene kits were contracted — 48,000 for men and 2,000 for women — ensuring coverage of the basic needs of service members arriving for treatment.
“The ‘Wounded Service Member’s Kit’ project, implemented since the beginning of this year, is a comprehensive and centralised provision of adaptive clothing and personal hygiene items that addresses the needs of service members undergoing treatment and recovery. It is a practical embodiment of barrier-free principles: clothing adapts to the person, not the person to uncomfortable conditions. At the same time, the needs of both women and men are taken into account”, — the Ministry emphasized.
In 2026, the continuation of adaptive clothing procurement is planned according to need, as well as expansion of the programme to civilian healthcare facilities where Ukrainian defenders are also undergoing treatment and rehabilitation.
