re: Hanging out in Ukraine

I'm a few hours from Donbas.

The older population that can no longer work, tend to suffer the most. Some are living on $100 a month. They are working their gardens at 80 years old to have something to eat.

I read an article on an Ukrainian orphanage. Oddly enough, most of the children have parents. The parents are either heavy alcoholics are simply can't afford them.

The wife's Grandmother was a surgeon, both her parents are Doctors and my wife was a pediatrician but they lived in what we would consider poverty. By Ukrainian standards they did pretty good but not by ours. My wife was making about $450 a month as a pediatrician here. The cost of living here is low, but she couldn't afford a vehicle and lived in one bedroom apartment that would compare to our slums. That would pretty much put her on par with most Ukrainians.

They have told me some sad stories. Ukrainians have free health care but have to pay for the prescriptions. Sadly enough, many can't afford them.

For example they might need a C-section but can't afford the medicine to have it done, so have no choice but to go natural birth, risking the life of their baby and themselvs.