‘It’s stomach-turning’: the children caught up in Ukraine war

Mothers and babies take shelter in hospital bunkers as Russian invasion claims lives of up to 10 children

When the air raid sirens wail, Natalya Tyshchuk feels relatively lucky. She only has to get herself and her daughter Mia - born three months premature in December but no longer in a cumbersome incubator - down to the basement that serves as a bomb shelter for the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in central Kyiv.

Racing down the stairs beside them are nurses and families of premature babies in intensive care, who have to be rushed underground with their life support machines, oxygen canisters, and all the tubes and wires monitoring their fragile young lives.