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Ukraine's elderly are conflict's forgotten victims

The elderly are "often forgotten, very vulnerable" in times of war says Federico Dessi, the Ukraine director of the NGO Handicap International, a group that provides equipment and will financially help the Dnipro home. "Cut off from their families" and "sometimes unable to use telephones or communicate" they are particularly vulnerable in conflicts, Dessi said.

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"The hardest are the people who spent long stretches in cellars," says Olga Volkova, the volunteer director of the centre, that houses 84 residents, most of whom are elderly. "A lot of people were left on their own. We helped them before the war, but then they were left to fend for themselves."