Late last year, I traveled to Kharkiv and Sumy with @unfpa.org to visit the maternity wards there, where mothers give birth amid shelling.
“Birth, it’s the most scary thing. People get used to the war," 24yo Nastia told me between contractions.
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Inside Ukraine’s Underground Maternity Wards
Four years after Russia invaded, Ukrainian health workers are shoring up maternity care to protect the most vulnerable—and preserve Ukrainian identity.
