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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Lebby Eyres & John Siddle

'I'm a Ukrainian refugee and I need to transport husband's sperm 1,750 miles for a baby'

A woman taking refuge in Britain is battling to save her IVF baby dream after being forced to leave a frozen embryo in wartorn Ukraine.

Iryna Litvinova, 37, longs to be a mum and wants to defy Vladimir Putin, whose bombs forced her to leave her home city of Kharkiv.

She had one embryo left from an IVF cycle and managed to transport it to safety in Kyiv before heading here.

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