The number of hospitalizations in Ukraine has risen sharply over the past five years
The number of hospitalizations in Ukrainian hospitals has increased 1.5-fold over the past five years—from 5.5 million in 2021 to 8.3 million in 2025. At the same time, the proportion of hospitalized men of draft age has increased, according to Deputy Health Minister Yevhen Honchar.
"The number of hospitalizations in healthcare facilities over the past five years has risen from 5.5 million in 2021 (when there were many COVID-19 patients) to 8.3 million in 2025. Has the number of hospitalizations among men aged 18–65 (potential conscripts) increased? Yes, their share among those hospitalized has increased by 12 percentage points (p.p.) in the overall breakdown," he said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
At the same time, Gonchar noted that the rise in hospitalizations stopped last year, and in the first half of 2026, the number decreased compared to the same period in 2025.
This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
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The Ministry of Education and Science is changing its approach to teaching in grades 10–12.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Center for Educational Quality Assessment commented on the situation in the Odesa region, where participants in the National Multidisciplinary Test spent nearly 13 hours at the testing center due to prolonged air raid alerts. According to the agency, graduates were offered the option to reschedule the exam for an additional session, but they refused and decided to wait until the testing was completed and take the NMT on the same day.
An alternative bill to change the format of the National Multisubject Test (NMT) has been registered in the Verkhovna Rada. The bill proposes reducing the number of subjects to be tested from four to three. In this case, mathematics would be an elective subject.
