Orphaned Ukraine Elders’ Exodus to Nowhere
Just a few miles north of Orikhiv on Highway H08 lies the village of Tavriiske. There, the director of the Tavriiske Psychiatric and Geriatric Home, Oleksandr Starosvitskyi, faces a torturous decision. They joined the burgeoning number of older Ukrainians orphaned by the war with Russia. When and how can Starosvitskyi move his charges to safety? And these are bedridden people, older people. How can we transport them? Who will look after them?...