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“Life does not stop,” or so the adage goes — even amid war.
AsRussia’s attack on Ukraine continues, many in the country are seeking shelter, leaving some pregnant women hiding out in hospital basements and bomb shelters where their babies are now being welcomed to the world in an increasingly dangerous situation.
Another Facebook post from a Ukrainian hospital in Luhansk last week detailed how all patients and staff were temporarily evacuated underground as shelling began.
“We were urgently evacuated to the basement together with other patients of the obstetrics and gynecology department. Each patient was provided with a bed with a bed, the basement was equipped with electricity, kerosene lamps and electric generators were prepared for emergencies,” the post read.
During the shelling, a patient arrived who needed “urgent gynecological surgery,” according to the hospital.
“At the risk of their lives, the doctors left the shelter, performed an emergency operation in the operating room, and then transported the patient to the shelter,” hospital officials wrote on social media.
Thanks to a team of nurses, a midwife and an OB-GYN, “everything went well.”
“A wonderful boy weighing 3500 g [roughly 8 pounds] was born,” the post read.
Viktor Liashko, Ukraine’s minister of health, also used social media to share photos of babies he said were born amid the fighting and mothers holding children in cramped quarters.
Russia’s invasion on Ukraine began on Thursday, with forces moving from the north, south and east.
Still others are staying put, seeking shelter underground as Russian troops move in.
“You don’t know where to go, where to run, who you have to call,” Liliya Marynchak, a 45-year-old teacher in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, told PEOPLE recently of the moment her city was bombed. “This is just panic,” she said.
Putin insists Ukraine has historic ties to Russia and he is acting in the interest of so-called “peacekeeping.”
source: people.com
