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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Lifestyle
Jason Laughlin

With help from Philly, disabled Ukrainians seek escape from war

In Ukraine, the bomb shelters aren't wheelchair accessible.

It's one of the bleak realities that weighed on Tanya Herasymova, who uses a wheelchair, as Russian forces descended near her home city of Kamianske, in eastern Ukraine. Another was the prospect of Russian occupation. Herasymova, a 31-year-old disability-rights activist, couldn't tolerate that.

"I can't keep silent, to be under this state," she said. "I don't imagine how I could live under occupation."

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