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BBC has included two Ukrainians in its list of the most influential and inspiring women of 2024

The BBC has named two Ukrainians—farmer Olha Olefirenko and Olha Rudnieva, founder of the Superhumans trauma center—among its list of the most influential and inspiring women of the year.

byOlena Mukhina

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Ukraine

Ukrainian Paralympian triumphs over disability: from war-torn Donetsk to Paris 2024

Rail accident, disability, has Oleksiy Kharlamov pushing for better accessibility in Ukraine

byChristine Chraibi

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International

Ukrainian Paralympians push through loss and devastation to make history in Paris

Despite ongoing war and destruction of their homes, Ukrainian Paralympians aim for victory at the Paris Games.

byChristine Chraibi

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Ukraine

Blindness is not a sentence. How a Ukrainian programmer codes on par with sighted colleagues

Denys Reveha loved programming from school, mastered his first computer when he was ten, and created his first…

byUkrainian media sources

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Ukraine

Meet Union Basket Lviv: a wheelchair basketball team for people with disabilities

Wheelchair basketball is one of the few team sports for people with disabilities. Union Basket Lviv is a…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

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Eurovision, Russia, and weaponized disability

We would stand behind women and children, promised Vladimir Putin in March 2014, after he triggered off a…

byIhor Vynokurov

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Invisible but exist: Ukrainian people with disabilities struggle not to be marginalized

The successful performance of the Ukrainian team in 2016 Summer Paralympics raised not only sports but human rights issues.…

byKostiantyn Yanchenko

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Oleksandr the Good Shepherd

Fifteen years ago, more than a hundred people lived in Desyatyny, Zhytomyr Oblast. Today, this rural community counts…

byUkrainian media sources

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International

Grassroot efforts attempt to budge Ukraine’s Soviet attitude to disability

In its treatment of people with disabilities, Ukraine has to choose whether to mechanically repeat Soviet patterns…

byOlena Makarenko