▲Victoria (32) and her son Fedor


News of Ukrainian pregnant women giving birth in shelters and subways are spreading as citizens continue to evacuate after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.



According to the Guardian today (3rd), mother Victoria, 32, who was visiting the hospital to give birth to her child on the 25th of last month, gave birth to her son Fedor at a shelter in Kiiu (Kyiv) to escape Russian air raid sirens, according to The Guardian.



The day after the Russian air strikes began, Victoria felt labor pains at her home and left her house with her husband to go to her hospital.

Explosions were heard outside the house at the time, but Victoria and her husband drove to the hospital to give birth to her. 



Victoria escaped the bombing and arrived at her hospital with all her lights turned off and began preparing to give birth to her child, but two hours later a siren alarm sounded.

It was an air raid alert. 



Victoria and her medical staff were taken to shelters in preparation for an airstrike, and Victoria eventually gave birth to her son, Fedor, when the amniotic fluid in her shelter burst.



Victoria said she was "taking a yoga class just in case she's having a baby, but just before she gave birth, it was unrealistic for her to hear a siren," she said at the time.



Still, he said, "Born in the Russian invasion, Fedor brought a lot of love and happiness to the family. I want my child to experience this war only through my story." .


Victoria is not alone in giving birth to children during the war.

According to the BBC, a 23-year-old mother gave birth to a child at a subway station in Kiev (Kyiv), the capital of Ukraine, on the 25th local time.



At around 8:30 pm that night, a mother who came down to the subway station to avoid an airstrike was giving birth, and with the help of police officers, gave birth.

The mother and child who gave birth at a difficult moment were fortunately found to be healthy.



At that time, there were citizens who came down from the subway station to escape the air raid, and it is known that they are now taking refuge in stopped trains. 



Ukrainian politician Hannah Hopko, who first disclosed this, posted an article on her SNS to the effect, "The baby was born even in the difficult circumstances that continued with the explosion. The baby's mother gave birth with difficulty, but she was happy." 



Some netizens who heard this news also congratulated her mother by comforting her mother, such as 'A baby's mother must have been more afraid of an airstrike than anyone else' and 'The birth of a baby is a hope of a miserable time'.



Meanwhile, today (3rd), a week after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Russia's sporadic airstrikes on civilian population-dense areas such as obstetrics and gynecology and TV towers located in the capital Kiiu (Kyiv) and the second city of Kharkov (Kharkov) followed. It is confirmed that there are concerns about pregnant women and infants. 



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(Photo=The New Voice of Ukraine, Guardian)