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Saturday April 9, in a maternity ward of Mariupolin Ukraine, infants continue to be born. For more than a month, the basement has been welcoming newborn babies.
Next to a maternity hospital Mariupol (Ukraine)Russian tank fire is heard, Saturday, April 9. The floors, which have become too dangerous, are empty. It is in the basement that, for more than a month, children have been born in the middle of the war. Since the beginning of the conflict, there have been 26 births and one child has not survived. In a basement without light, a hundred people are piled up. Among them, young mothers with their babies.
“Here, as you can see, there are mattresses. With the explosions, they shake and there are very loud noises. Unfortunately, all this wakes the baby“, says Anastasia Poddubnayawho hugs her 17-day-old son. She and her child are miraculous, before arriving here, they were in the other maternity of Mariupolwhich was bombed on March 9. Her husband, Vladislav Puddubnyfeels today powerless. “I don’t know what happens next, where to take it“, he confides.