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Elissa Nadworny

Ukraine's birth rate was already dangerously low. Then war broke out

An empty baby cart in a maternity hospital in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

KYIV, Ukraine — They never wanted children. Yuliia Oleksienko says she and her husband Oleksandr made that decision long before Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

"We talked about it many times," says 31-year-old Oleksienko, "and we always saw ourselves as being child-free in our future."

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