Daily News | With help from Philly, disabled Ukrainians seek escape from war
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.
“For people with disabilities, it’s like double the danger because you can’t do what people without disabilities can do,” said Yuliia Sachuk, 39, who has vision impairment and evacuated from Kyiv to Denmark with her 17-year-old son.Deaths among those with disabilities tend to be two to four times those among the overall population during conflict or catastrophe, the, a pattern seen during the 2011 earthquake in Japan and Hurricane Katrina.
“My fear is that ... we can’t help everyone with disabilities in Ukraine,” said Sachuk. “If the international community would be more responsive we would be able to help more people.” Parodi, who uses a wheelchair, advocated for the United States to provide better care during the pandemic for those with disabilities.“Nobody else is doing this,” he said. “If you cannot get yourself to a safe zone, no one is coming to help you.”Herasymova’s journey began Feb. 24 when she woke at 7 a.m. to her mother telling her war had started. Her mother suggested she stay with a friend living on a ground floor, but Herasymova quickly made a different decision.
She recalled a conductor saying, “We need to move slowly and be like a ghost and these airplanes won’t be able to see us.”, the New York Times reported.
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