‘You could be forced to give birth in a cellar’: Inside a maternity clinic in war-torn Ukraine

Reuters

In the last specialist maternity ward still under Ukrainian control in the eastern Donbas region, the windows are packed with sandbags.

Rooms used for births at the perinatal centre in the city of Pokrovsk follow the two-wall rule, which says the safest parts of a building are separated from the outside by at least two walls.