With its huge land mass, inaccessible buildings and treacherous escape routes, Olena Yavorova and millions of others with disabilities are not able to leave Ukraine.
They now live in a village in the Kharkiv region in the northeast of Ukraine, where there has been a lot of fighting."Sometimes I am scared, sometimes I feel much hope, sometimes I am so angry," she said.
"We have a lot of people who come to our place from Kharkiv," she said. "Kharkiv is really dangerous place now."Human Rights Advisor for the International Disability Alliance Jarrod Clyne said the war was having a disproportionate impact on people with disabilities."As we know, the most marginalised people in societies tend to be most adversely affected by conflict," Mr Clyne explained.
Mr Clyne said disabled people in Ukraine are losing supports as carers are being drafted into military service."The diversion of support staff being conscripted into the Ukrainian military... all of these things in totality do paint quite a grim picture, unfortunately for the 2.7 million people with disabilities in Ukraine," he said.
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