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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kim Sengupta

War babies: The surrogate newborns in Ukraine waiting for their parents in a Kyiv basement

Kim Sengupta

The youngest one was just three days old, the oldest five months. They lay in rows of cots in a basement bunker to protect them from missiles and artillery strikes, innocents trapped by war, with deep uncertainty about what the future holds for them.

The babies were of surrogate mothers for foreign couples who cannot now come to Ukraine to collect them following the Russian invasion, while the violence makes it too dangerous to try to get them out of the country.

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