The voices of Ukrainians with disabilities are missing from conversations about the war

Published April 15, 2022 at 12:52 PM EDT

As we hear more about the brutal realities on the ground in Ukraine, the voices of the approximately 2.7 million Ukrainians with disabilities are conspicuously absent.

Femi Oke, host of “The Stream” on Al Jazeera, joins us.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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