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Jason Laughlin

DARK SECRETS: With help from philly disabled ukrainians seek escape from war | Rare Historical Photos

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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