Vulnerable and Forgotten: Older People in Eastern Ukraine

As the conflict in eastern Ukraine is about to enter its fifth year, it maintains its own peculiarity: the high percentage of older people affected by the conflict. It is thus no surprise that most images from the front line portray elderly women and men fetching water from distant water points; struggling to cross the Stanitsa Luhanska crossing point; or again queuing at the bank office hoping to receive their meager pension.