Born in war: Kyiv's maternity ward under siege – video
by Zachary Goelman from on (#5WPSA)
The basement of a Kyiv hospital is now the maternity ward, where expecting and new mothers bring new life into a world violently upended by a Russian military invasion.
Alina Shinkar is 32 weeks pregnant with her first child. She was admitted to one of Kyiv's maternity hospitals two weeks ago because of pregnancy complications. 'I woke up on the 24th of February, at 5 o'clock in the morning from the hit, that I heard. The explosion. And then I heard women started to cry and scream. The war started.'
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