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Alone under siege: how older women are being left behind in Ukraine

With many living alone in dire conditions or unable to care for themselves, these forgotten woman are among those least able to escape

Halyna Vasylivna lives alone in a tiny “Khrushchevka” flat. At 94, she has outlived her sons and her husband, and her grandchildren live outside the city.

Her apartment, named after the Soviet leader under whom the five-storey buildings in Kyiv’s Podil district were built, is too far from the bunker so she hides in her pantry during airstrikes.

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