Ukraine's disability numbers jump by 600,000 as the country ditches Soviet medical boards
While Russia is doing its best to break Ukrainian infrastructure, the state is quietly trying to scrap one of its most notoriously corrupt Soviet-era legacy institutions.
The brutal reality of this war is now laid bare in the official numbers. Around 600,000 more Ukrainians have acquired disabilities since the full-scale invasion started, bringing the total to a staggering 3.4 million people.
Living with limited mobility in Ukraine right now is a daily survival game, especially when Russian strikes knock out power, water, heating, and elevator services in high-rise buildings.
But here is the wild part: in the middle of all this chaos and constant shelling, Ukraine is actually pushing through massive structural reforms. The government is finally binning MSEC—those notoriously corrupt, Soviet-era medical-social commissions where people literally had to pay bribes to prove they lost a limb. Instead, they are moving to a digitalized European system that actually assesses what a person needs for daily life, rather than just ticking bureaucratic boxes.
Western partners at the UN are reportedly staring in disbelief, wondering how Ukrainians manage to look decent and overhaul their entire legal system while rockets are literally flying overhead.
Fighting a war on two fronts—against Russian invaders and Soviet-era bureaucracy—is apparently the ultimate Ukrainian superpower.
Source: Ukrinform
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