Russian invasion creates more challenges for visually impaired in Ukraine
Losing a place of work is just one of a multitude of challenges that people with visual impairments face across Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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Oleksandr Vinkovskyi, director of a Kyiv manufacturing plant where visually impaired people worked, sits for an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, about the impacts of Russian attacks on his employees. "A visually impaired person goes to work not only to earn money, but also to communicate, interact, and be part of society in some way," said Vinkovskyi. "And I don't know how to estimate this loss."ASSOCIATED PRESS
Three women sit in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people worked until it was shuttered due to attacks of Russian-fired drones. Losing the place of work is just one of a multitude of challenges that people with visual impairments face across Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People sit in a workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People sit in a workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People sit in a workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People sit in a workshop in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault.ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo shows Volodymyr Holubenko, 62, who is blind and is the administrator of the business where visually impaired people used to work, and that was shuttered after a Russian air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30. "I heard everything. Our doors at home were shuddering," said Holubenko, who has been working at the company for 47 years.ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo shows an old book printed during Ukraine's Soviet era, damaged during a Russian air assault on a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
This photo shows the aftermath of a Russian air assault on a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered due to Russian attacks, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A woman reacts emotionally during a meeting of former employees of a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
Women sit in a workshop in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
People sit in a workshop in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30.ASSOCIATED PRESS
A saxophonist practices in a manufacturing plant where visually impaired people used to work until it was shuttered following a Russian air assault in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 30.