Fate of Ukrainians with disabilities a 'crisis within a crisis'


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  • Friday, 11 Mar 2022

FILE PHOTO: A woman is pushed in a wheelchair, as she arrives by ferry after fleeing from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the Isaccea-Orlivka border crossing, Romania, March 8, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File Photo

LISBON (Reuters) - A Ukrainian disability campaigner could barely hold back the tears when she told of a young man with cerebral palsy who she said was killed in a Russian air strike near Kyiv.

Raisa Kravchenko, from VGO, a Ukrainian network of more than 100 local NGOs supporting people with intellectual disabilities, spoke to reporters in a virtual news conference on Thursday from her home in war-torn Ukraine.

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