Disabled Ukrainians Are Left Behind Amid War, Activists Say
People help an elderly woman in a wheelchair as they flee the city of Irpin on March 7.
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Ukraine’s disabled community is being left behind as the country becomes a “survival of the fittest,” activists are warning.
“This war is going to profoundly affect the lives of disabled people and those who are at the most vulnerable edge of society,” Baroness Jane Campbell told Bloomberg Quicktake’s “Emma Barnett Meets” show.